DanishSignLanguage (Danish: Dansk tegnsprog, DTS) is the signlanguage used in Denmark. Henri Wittmann (1991) assigned DSL to the French Sign Language...
Signlanguages (also known as signedlanguages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
Danish, Italian), German, Japanese, and language isolates. Contact sign Intercultural competence Legal recognition of signlanguages List of sign languages...
Kingdom of Denmark has only one official language, Danish, the national language of the Danish people, but there are several minority languages spoken, namely...
syllabics. Inuit SignLanguage (IUR, Inuktitut: Inuit Uukturausingit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous signlanguage of the Inuit...
Icelandic SignLanguage (Icelandic: Íslenskt táknmál) is the signlanguage of the deaf community in Iceland. It is based on DanishSignLanguage; until 1910...
Norwegian SignLanguage, or NSL (Norwegian Bokmål: norsk tegnspråk or Nynorsk: norsk teiknspråk, NTS), is the principal signlanguage in Norway. There...
Swedish SignLanguage family is a language family of signlanguages, including Swedish SignLanguage, Portuguese SignLanguage, and Finnish SignLanguage. Swedish...
Parliament established the DanishSignLanguage Council "to devise principles and guidelines for the monitoring of the Danishsignlanguage and offer advice and...
Australian and New Zealand SignLanguage (BANZSL) is the language of which British SignLanguage (BSL), Auslan and New Zealand SignLanguage (NZSL) may be considered...
British SignLanguage (BSL) is a signlanguage used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While...
minority language with constitutional rights and the first language of the Icelandic deaf community. During the time of Danish rule, Danish was a minority...
The Malagasy SignLanguage (Malagasy: Tenin'ny Tanana Malagasy, abbreviated TTN) is a signlanguage used for communication among hearing impaired people...
grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages. Unlike the signlanguages that have evolved naturally...
The official language of Botswana is English, while Setswana is considered to be a national language. English, which was inherited from colonial rule...
are not available, the Danish Deaf Association estimates that there are currently about 5,000 deaf users of DanishSignLanguage, which is equivalent to...
International Sign (IS) is a pidgin signlanguage which is used in a variety of different contexts, particularly as an international auxiliary language at meetings...
In signlanguages, the term classifier construction (also known as classifier predicates) refers to a morphological system that can express events and...
same word is used in Slovak. In Danish, it is snabel-a ('elephant's trunk A'). It is not used for prices, where in Danish à means 'at (per piece)'. In Dutch...
denotations of "by the number, with the number"). In Romance languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g...
speakers). The remainder of the population mainly speaks Danish; Greenlandic SignLanguage is the language of the deaf community. Greenland has been a very isolated...
000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting signlanguages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...
International Sign Writing Alphabet (ISWA). As Sutton was teaching DanceWriting to the Royal Danish Ballet, Lars von der Lieth, who was doing research on signed language...
status and accessibility of DanishSignLanguage. In 1866, a group of deaf craftsmen in Copenhagen who had attended the Danish Institute of Deafness founded...
The grammar of American SignLanguage (ASL) has rules just like any other signlanguage or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...
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