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33 relations: Adamorobe Sign Language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, American School for the Deaf, American Sign Language, British America, Chilmark, Massachusetts, Cochlear implant, Deaf culture, Dominance (genetics), Endogamy, Founder effect, French Sign Language, Hartford, Connecticut, Hearing (person), Hearing loss, Heredity, Home sign, Kata Kolok, Kent, List of extinct languages of North America, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayan Sign Language, Nicaraguan Sign Language, Old Kentish Sign Language, Oliver Sacks, Puritans, Sandy River Valley Sign Language, Sign language, University of California Press, Village sign language, Weald.
Adamorobe Sign Language
Adamorobe Sign Language or Adasl is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana.
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Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a village sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of the al-Sayyid Bedouin tribe in the Negev desert of southern Israel.
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American School for the Deaf
The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States.
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American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
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British America
British America refers to English Crown colony territories on the continent of North America and Bermuda, Central America, the Caribbean, and Guyana from 1607 to 1783.
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Chilmark, Massachusetts
Chilmark is a town located on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Cochlear implant
A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss in both ears.
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Deaf culture
Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.
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Dominance (genetics)
Dominance in genetics is a relationship between alleles of one gene, in which the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of a second allele at the same locus.
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Endogamy
Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.
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Founder effect
In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.
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French Sign Language
French Sign Language (langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland.
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Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Hearing (person)
The term hearing or hearing person, from the perspective of mainstream English-language culture, refers to someone whose sense of hearing is at the medical norm.
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Hearing loss
Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.
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Heredity
Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
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Home sign
Home sign (or kitchen sign) is the gestural communication system developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.
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Kata Kolok
Kata Kolok (literally "deaf talk"), also known as Benkala Sign Language and Balinese Sign Language, is a village sign language which is indigenous to two neighbouring villages in northern Bali, Indonesia.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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List of extinct languages of North America
This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant, most of them being languages of former Native American tribes.
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Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard (Wampanoag: Noepe; often called just the Vineyard) is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts that is known for being an affluent summer colony.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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Mayan Sign Language
Mayan Sign Language is a sign language used in Mexico and Guatemala by Mayan communities with unusually high numbers of deaf inhabitants.
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Nicaraguan Sign Language
Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a sign language that was largely spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Old Kentish Sign Language
Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL, also Old Kent Sign Language) is an extinct village sign language of 17th-century Kent in the United Kingdom, that has since been superseded by British Sign Language.
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Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
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Sandy River Valley Sign Language
Sandy River Valley Sign Language was a village sign language of the 19th-century Sandy River Valley in Maine.
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Sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Village sign language
A village sign language, or village sign, is a local indigenous sign language in an area with a high incidence of congenital deafness.
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Weald
The Weald is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
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ISO 639:mre, Marthas Vineyard Sign Language.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha's_Vineyard_Sign_Language
