6 relations: Deaf-community sign language, Hearing loss, Henri Wittmann, Sign language, Sri Lanka, Trans-cultural diffusion.
Deaf-community sign language
A deaf-community sign language is a sign language that emerges when deaf people who do not have a common language come together and form a community.
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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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Henri Wittmann
Henri Wittmann (born 1937) is a Canadian linguist from Quebec.
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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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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Trans-cultural diffusion
In cultural anthropology and cultural geography, cultural diffusion, as conceptualized by Leo Frobenius in his 1897/98 publication Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis, is the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.
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