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  2. Location (sign language) - Wikipedia

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    In sign languages, location, or tab, refers to specific places that the hands occupy as they are used to form signs. In Stokoe terminology it is known as the TAB , an abbreviation of tabula . Location is one of five components, or parameters, of a sign, along with handshape ( DEZ ), orientation ( ORI ), movement ( SIG ), and nonmanual features .

  3. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    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 nonmanual features . [ 6 ]

  4. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    In sign languages, the term classifier construction (also known as classifier predicates) refers to a morphological system that can express events and states. [1] They use handshape classifiers to represent movement, location, and shape. Classifiers differ from signs in their morphology, namely that signs consist of a single morpheme.

  5. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive name signs are not initialized, but rather use non-core ASL signs. They tend to be assigned and used by children, rather like "Blinky" in English. Parents do not give such names to their children, but most Deaf people do not have deaf parents and are assigned their name sign by classmates in their first school for the deaf.

  6. 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.

  7. Varieties of American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Moroccan Sign Language (MSL) is the language of the deaf community of Tetouan and some other cities of Morocco. American Peace Corps volunteers created Moroccan Sign Language in 1987 in Tetouan from American Sign Language (ASL) and the existing signs; there is less than a 50% lexical similarity with ASL.

  8. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Sign Language, main sign language used in Iran Filipino Sign Language: mixed ASL, various dialects (FSL) or Philippine Sign Language (Filipino: Wikang pasenyas ng mga Pilipino). Ghandruk Sign Language: village (Nepal) Hawaiʻi Sign Language? Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi Hong Kong Sign Language: Shanghai Sign Language "香港手語" (HKSL).

  9. Signing space - Wikipedia

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    The signer also uses this space to position the entities that are evoked in the sentence (e.g. people, objects, buildings and places) and to demonstrate their semantic relationships. [2] This is called placement. The signer can introduce people into the conversation by signing their names, then placing them in the signing space.