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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. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe in the 1960s. [1] [2] This sign language consists of parameters that determine many other grammar rules. Typical word structure in ASL conforms to the SVO/OSV and topic-comment form ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. What Language Do Deaf People Think In? - Healthline

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is the language spoken by deaf Americans and is different from the sign languages spoken in other countries, like Britain or Japan. Myth: All deaf people can read lips.

  7. American Sign Language literature - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) is the shared language of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community in North America. Membership to this community is based primarily on shared cultural values, including a shared signed language. Those who are physically deaf or hard of hearing but do not share the same language and cultural values are not considered ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Varieties of American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). [1] Local varieties have developed in many countries, but there is little research on which should be considered dialects of ASL (such as Bolivian Sign Language) and which have diverged to the point of being ...

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