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  2. 8 Sign Language Apps to Get Learning Started - Healthline

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    InterSign ASL. InterSign ASL is a relatively new visual-only app with more than 90 lessons. It offers a dictionary, glossary, and games. The developers are planning to include sign variants ...

  3. 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 [5] 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 ...

  4. William Stokoe - Wikipedia

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    William Stokoe. William Clarence “Bill” Stokoe Jr. (/ ˈstoʊkiː / STOH-kee; July 21, 1919 – April 4, 2000) was an American linguist and a long-time professor at Gallaudet University. His research on American Sign Language (ASL) revolutionized the understanding of ASL in the United States and sign languages throughout the world.

  5. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈstoʊki / STOH-kee) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.

  6. Black American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    v. t. 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 ...

  7. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation, devised by Dr. William Stokoe for his 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language, [90] is an abstract phonemic notation system. Designed specifically for representing the use of the hands, it has no way of expressing facial expression or other non-manual features of sign languages.

  8. Idioms in American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is the main language of members of the deaf community in the United States. One component of their language is the use of idioms. The validity of these idioms have often been questioned or confused with metaphorical language. The term idiom can be defined as, "A speech form or an expression of a given language that ...

  9. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    Signing Exact English. Signing Exact English (SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. It is related to Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), a manual ...

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