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2. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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   There are three types of personal name signs in ASL: fingerspelled, arbitrary, and descriptive. Fingerspelled names are simply spelled out letter-by-letter. Arbitrary name signs only refer to a person's name, while descriptive name signs refer to a person's personality or physical characteristics. [18]

3. Sign name - Wikipedia

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   Until a person receives a sign name, the person's name is usually fingerspelled, [1] rendering a letter-by-letter representation of a person's English-language name. [2] Linguist Samuel James Supalla identifies name signs as having dual functions: to identify persons and to signify "membership in the Deaf community." [2] Different deaf cultures ...

4. 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 ...

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. ASL name sign - Wikipedia

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7. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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   10. The manual alphabet can be used on either hand, normally the signer's dominant hand – that is, the right hand for right-handers, the left hand for left-handers. [1] Most frequently, the manual alphabet is signed just below the dominant shoulder of the signer. When used within other signs or in a context in which this is not plausible ...