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There are perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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 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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Armenian Sign Language

Armenian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Armenia.

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Auslan

Auslan is the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.

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Australian Aboriginal sign languages

Many Australian Aboriginal cultures have or traditionally had a manually coded language, a signed counterpart of their oral language.

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Austrian Sign Language

Austrian Sign Language, or Österreichische Gebärdensprache (ÖGS), is the sign language used by the Austrian Deaf community—approximately 10,000 people (see Krausneker 2006).

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Baby sign language

Baby sign language is the use of manual signing allowing infants and toddlers to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development.

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Bamako Sign Language

Bamako Sign Language, also known as Malian Sign Language, or LaSiMa (Langue des Signes Malienne), is a sign language that developed outside the Malian educational system, in the urban tea-circles of Bamako where deaf men gathered after work.

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BANZSL

BANZSL, or British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language, is the language of which British Sign Language (BSL), Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) may be considered dialects.

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Brazilian Sign Language

Brazilian Sign Language (BSL) is the sign language used by Deaf communities of urban Brazil.

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British Sign Language

British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language of some deaf people in the UK; there are 125,000 deaf adults in the UK who use BSL plus an estimated 20,000 children.

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Bulgarian Sign Language

Bulgarian Sign Language (in Bulgarian: "български жестомимичен език (БЖЕ)") is the language, or perhaps languages, of the deaf community in Bulgaria.

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Catalan Sign Language

Catalan Sign Language (Llengua de signes catalana, LSC) is a sign language used by around 18,000 people in different regions of Spain including Barcelona and Catalonia.

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Chinese Sign Language

Modern Chinese Sign Language (or CSL or ZGS) is the deaf sign language of the People's Republic of China.

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Contact sign

A contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between a deaf sign language and an oral language (or the written or manually coded form of the oral language).

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages at a fairly sudden point in time: often, a pidgin transitioned into a full, native language.

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Czech Sign Language

Czech Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in the Czech Republic.

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Danish Sign Language

Danish Sign Language (Dansk tegnsprog, DTS) is the sign language used in Denmark.

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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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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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Dutch Sign Language

Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal or NGT; Sign Language of the Netherlands or SLN) is the sign language used by deaf people in the Netherlands and is not officially recognized.

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Ecuadorian Sign Language

Ecuadorian Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Ecuador.

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Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands.

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Finnish Sign Language

Finnish Sign Language (suomalainen viittomakieli in Finnish) is the sign language most commonly used in Finland.

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Flemish Sign Language

Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT) is the deaf sign language of Belgium, a country in Western Europe.

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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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French Sign Language family

The French Sign Language (LSF) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language.

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German Sign Language

German Sign Language or Deutsche Gebärdensprache is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany and in the German-speaking community of Belgium.

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German Sign Language family

The German Sign Language family is a small language family of sign languages, including German Sign Language, Polish Sign Language and probably Israeli Sign Language.

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Gesture

A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication or non-vocal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of, or in conjunction with, speech.

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Hawai'i Sign Language

Hawaiʻi Sign Language (HSL), also known as Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Pidgin Sign Language (PSL), is an indigenous sign language used in Hawaiʻi.

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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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Hungarian Sign Language

Hungarian Sign Language is the sign language of Deaf people in Hungary.

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Icelandic Sign Language

Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál) is the sign language of the deaf community in Iceland.

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Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL) is the predominant sign language in South Asia, used by at least several hundred thousand deaf signers (2003).

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Intercultural competence

U.S. Military Academy Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies.

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International Sign

International Sign (IS) is a contact variety of sign language used in a variety of different contexts, particularly at international meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) congress, events such as the Deaflympics, in video clips produced by Deaf people and watched by other Deaf people from around the world, and informally when travelling and socialising.

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Irish Sign Language

Irish Sign Language (ISL, Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland.

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Israeli Sign Language

Israeli Sign Language, or ISL, is the most commonly used sign language in the deaf community of Israel.

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Italian Sign Language

Italian Sign Language or LIS (Lingua dei Segni Italiana) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy.

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Japanese Sign Language

, also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan.

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Japanese Sign Language family

The Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family is a language family of three sign languages: Japanese Sign Language (JSL), Korean Sign Language (KSL), and Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL).

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Ka'apor Sign Language

Ka'apor Sign Language (also known as Urubu Sign Language or Urubu–Ka'apor Sign Language, although these are pejorative) was a village sign language used by the small community of Ka'apor people in the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

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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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Kenyan Sign Language

Kenyan Sign Language (English: KSL, Swahili: LAK) is a sign language used by the deaf community in Kenya.

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Korean Sign Language

Korean Sign Language or KSL (Korean: 한국 수화 언어 韓國手話言語 Hanguk Suhwa Eoneo or 한국 수어 韓國手語 Hanguk Sueo) is the deaf sign language of South Korea.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Language contact

Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other.

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Legal recognition of sign languages

The legal recognition of sign languages differs widely.

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Levantine Arabic Sign Language

Levantine Arabic Sign Language, also known as Syro-Palestinian Sign Language, is the deaf sign language of Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon.

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List of sign languages

There are perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today.

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Malaysian Sign Language

Malaysian Sign Language (Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia, or BIM) is the principal language of the deaf community of Malaysia.

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Manually Coded Malay

Kod Tangan Bahasa Malaysia (KTBM), or Manually Coded Malay, is the only form of sign language recognized by the government in Malaysia as the language of communication for the Deaf.

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Maritime Sign Language

Maritime Sign Language (MSL), is a sign language descended from British Sign Language and used in Canada's Atlantic provinces.

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Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S., from the early 18th century to 1952.

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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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Mexican Sign Language

Mexican Sign Language (“lengua de señas mexicana” or LSM, also known by several other names), is the language of the Deaf community in the urban regions of Mexico.

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Mofu-Gudur language

Mofu-Gudur, or South Mofu, is an Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon.

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Monastic sign languages

Monastic sign languages have been used in Europe from at least the 10th century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are still in use today—not only in Europe but also in Japan, China and the USA.

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Nepali Sign Language

Nepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language is the main deaf sign language of Nepal.

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New Zealand Sign Language

New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL (Te Reo Rotarota) is the main language of the Deaf community in New Zealand.

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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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Norwegian Sign Language

Norwegian Sign Language, or NSL (Norwegian: norsk tegnspråk, NTS), is the principal sign language in Norway.

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Origin of language

The evolutionary emergence of language in the human species has been a subject of speculation for several centuries.

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Penang Sign Language

Penang Sign Language was developed in Malaysia by deaf children, outside the classroom, when oralism was predominant.

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Peruvian Sign Language

Peruvian Sign Language (PRL) is the deaf sign language of Peru.

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Philippine Sign Language

Philippine Sign Language, or Filipino Sign Language (FSL), is the national deaf sign language of the Philippines.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Plains Indian Sign Language

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language and First Nation Sign Language, is a trade language (or international auxiliary language), formerly trade pidgin, that was once the lingua franca across central Canada, central and western United States and northern Mexico, used among the various Plains Nations.

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Polish Sign Language

Polish Sign Language ("Polski Język Migowy", PJM) is the language of the Deaf community in Poland.

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Portuguese Sign Language

Portuguese Sign language is a sign language used mainly by Deaf people in Portugal.

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Providence Island Sign Language

Providence Island Sign Language (also known as Provisle or "Providencia Sign Language") is a village sign language of the small island community of Providence Island in the Western Caribbean, off the coast of Nicaragua but belonging to Colombia.

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Quebec Sign Language

Quebec Sign Language, known in French as Langue des signes québécoise or Langue des signes du Québec (LSQ), is the predominant sign language of deaf communities used in francophone Canada, primarily in Quebec.

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Rennellese Sign Language

Rennellese Sign Language is an extinct form of home sign documented from Rennell Island in 1974.

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Romanian Sign Language

Romanian Sign Language is the sign language used by deaf people in Romania.

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Russian Sign Language

Russian Sign Language is the sign language of the Deaf community in Russia.

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Salvadoran Sign Language

Salvadoran Sign language is a language used by the deaf community in El Salvador.

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Saudi Sign Language

Saudi Sign Language is the deaf sign language of Saudi Arabia.

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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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Slovak Sign Language

The Slovak Sign Language is the sign language of the deaf community in Slovakia.

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South African Sign Language

South African Sign Language (SASL) is the primary sign language spoken by Deaf in South Africa.

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Spanish Sign Language

Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de Signos Española, LSE) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Spain and the people who live with them.

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Spurious languages

Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question did not exist.

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Sri Lankan sign languages

Sri Lankan Sign Language is a visual language used by deaf people in Sri Lanka and has regional variations stemming from the 25 Deaf schools in Sri Lanka.

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Swedish Sign Language

Swedish Sign Language (Svenskt teckenspråk or STS) is the sign language used in Sweden.

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Taiwanese Sign Language

Taiwanese Sign Language or TSL is the deaf sign language most commonly used in Taiwan.

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Thai Sign Language

Thai Sign Language (TSL) or Modern Standard Thai Sign Language (MSTSL), is the national sign language of Thailand's deaf community and is used in most parts of the country by the 20 percent of the estimated 56,000 pre-linguistically deaf people who go to school.

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Turkish Sign Language

Turkish Sign Language (Türk İşaret Dili, TİD) is the language used by the deaf community in Turkey.

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Ugandan Sign Language

Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda.

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Ukrainian Sign Language

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL) (Українська жестова мова (УЖМ)) is the sign language of the deaf community of Ukraine.

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Varieties of American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States and Canada, but has spread around the world.

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Venezuelan Sign Language

Venezuelan Sign language or VSL (Lengua de señas venezolana or LSV) is the national deaf sign language of Venezuela.

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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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Warlpiri Sign Language

Warlpiri Sign Language, also known as Rdaka-rdaka (hand signs), is a sign language used by the Warlpiri, an Aboriginal community in the central desert region of Australia.

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World Federation of the Deaf

The World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) is an international non-governmental organization that acts as a peak body for national associations of Deaf people, with a focus on Deaf people who use sign language and their family and friends.

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Yolŋu Sign Language

Yolŋu (Yolngu) or Murngin Sign Language is a ritual sign language used by the Yolngu, an Aboriginal community in the Arnhem Land region of Australia.

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