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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 [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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Spreadthesign - Wikipedia

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    Spreadthesign is an online multilingual sign languages dictionary. [2] Searching for words and sentences provides the corresponding signs within the target sign language. [3] Spreadthesign is available as a free access learning tool both as a website and an app. [4] [5] The project is largely supported by public institutions, public funding [6 ...

  5. 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.

  6. ASLwrite - Wikipedia

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    ASLwrite (ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. [1] It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features. ASLwrite is only used by a handful of people, primarily revolving around discussions happening on Facebook [2] and ...

  7. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈ s t oʊ k i / 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.

  8. 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.

  9. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    ASL-phabet. ASL-phabet, or the ASL Alphabet, is a writing system developed by Samuel Supalla for American Sign Language (ASL). It is based on a system called SignFont, [ 1][ 2] which Supalla modified and streamlined for use in an educational setting with Deaf children. [ 3]