JapaneseSignLanguage (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant signlanguage in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct...
SignLanguage date from 1895. The origins of TSL developed from JapaneseSignLanguage during Japanese rule. TSL is considered part of the Japanese Sign...
Language (JSL) grammar when Korea was under Japanese rule. KSL is considered part of the JapaneseSignLanguagefamily. According to the South Korean Ministry...
Signlanguages (also known as signedlanguages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic languagefamily spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...
language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language...
American SignLanguage (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant signlanguage of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
and AOSL is therefore perhaps not a single language. Ted Supalla JapaneseSignLanguage Miyakubo SignLanguage Osugi, Yutaka; Supalla, Ted; Webb, Rebecca...
A village signlanguage, or village sign, also known as a shared signlanguage, is a local indigenous signlanguage used by both deaf and hearing in an...
perhaps three hundred signlanguages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new signlanguages emerge frequently through...
the language. A number of hearing children pick it up from deaf classmates in preschool. Because SignedJapanese rather than JapaneseSignLanguage (JSL)...
A languagefamily is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that...
Chinese SignLanguage is unrelated to Taiwanese SignLanguage (which is part of the Japanesefamily), Malaysian SignLanguage (of the French family), or...
linguistics, see the article "List of proposed language families". The family relationships of signlanguages are not well established due to a lagging in linguistic...
Filipino SignLanguage (FSL) or Philippine SignLanguage (Filipino: Wikang pasenyas ng mga Pilipino), is a signlanguage originating in the Philippines...
German SignLanguage or Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS), is the signlanguage of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and in the German-speaking community...
in Japan, China and the USA. Unlike deaf signlanguages, they are better understood as forms of symbolic gestural communication rather than languages, and...
and signlanguage linguistics. Six languages are spoken and signed in the film: English, Japanese, Italian, American SignLanguage, JapaneseSign Language...
Plains Indian SignLanguage (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains SignLanguage, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
In signlanguage, an initialized sign is one that is produced with a handshape(s) that corresponds to the fingerspelling of its equivalent in the locally...
Hokkien, Hakka, Japanese, and Mandarin. Due to the former Japanese occupation of the island, the Japaneselanguage has influenced the languages of Taiwan,...
Indonesian SignLanguage, or Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia (BISINDO), is any of several related deaf signlanguages of Indonesia, at least on the island of...
Plateau SignLanguage, or Old Plateau SignLanguage, is a poorly attested, extinct signlanguage historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
Navajo FamilySign is a signlanguage used by a small deaf community of the Navajo People. Supalla, Samuel J. (1992). The Book of Name Signs. p. 22. Davis...
additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and signlanguages. The official language of Indonesia...
precisely Hokkaido Ainu (Japanese: 北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido....