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  2. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Areas where ASL is in significant use alongside another sign language. American Sign Language ( ASL) is a natural language [4] that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and ...

  3. Age/sex/location - Wikipedia

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    Age/sex/location (commonly referred to by the shorthand A/S/L, asl or ASL) is an article of Internet slang used in instant messaging programs and in Internet chatrooms. It is used in shorthand as a question to quickly find out the age , sex , and general location of the person with whom someone is interacting.

  4. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In most drawings or illustrations of the American Manual Alphabet, some of the letters are depicted from the side to better illustrate the desired hand shape. For example, the letters G and H are frequently shown from the side to illustrate the position of the fingers. However, they are signed with the hand in an ergonomically neutral position ...

  5. 8 Sign Language Apps to Get Learning Started - Healthline

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    The ASL App. The ASL App was created by Ink & Salt, a deaf-owned and deaf-run company. It’s a visual-only app that offers more than 2,500 ASL signs and phrases. The app features a slow-motion ...

  6. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    For example, although Australia, English Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. all have English as their dominant language, American Sign Language (ASL), derived from French Sign Language, is the main sign language used in the U.S. and English Canada, whereas the other three countries use varieties of British, Australian and New Zealand ...

  7. Black American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    e. Black American Sign Language ( BASL) or Black Sign Variation ( BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) [2] used most commonly by deaf African Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were ...

  8. American Sign Language phonology - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language phonology. Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to, yet dissimilar from, those of oral languages. Although there is a qualitative difference from oral languages in that sign-language phonemes are not based on sound, and are spatial in addition to being ...

  9. Sign Language for Toddlers: Is It Beneficial? - Healthline

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    Potential benefits of sign language for toddlers. Possible benefits of using sign language for your little ones include: earlier ability to understand spoken words, especially from ages 1 to 2 ...

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