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  2. Japanese Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Chuukan Shuwa combines JSL with Japanese language grammar. It is called contact sign in the United States. JSL is the only one of these to be considered a true sign language, as opposed to an encoding of spoken Japanese. However, these three kinds of sign are all widely referred to as shuwa (手話, lit. ' manual language ') in Japan.

  3. Japanese Sign Language family - Wikipedia

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    JSL is mutually intelligible with both KSL and TSL. This means that although Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Mandarin are unrelated oral languages, someone who uses JSL can effectively communicate with someone who uses TSL or KSL with little difficulty. TSL shares about 60% of its vocabulary with JSL, but the similarities between the languages ...

  4. Deafness in Japan - Wikipedia

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    JSL, however, has its own grammar and syntax, independent from written Japanese language. [2] This is in contrast to Signed Japanese (SJ) which follows the sentence structure of the written language. [2] JSL belongs to a family of nationally used Japanese sign languages along with Taiwanese and South Korean sign language. [4]

  5. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language: United States and Canada: ASL is also officially recognized as a language in Canada due to the passage of Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. Black American Sign Language is a dialect of ASL. Argentine Sign Language: Spain and Italy [citation needed] (Lengua de Señas Argentina – LSA) Bay Islands Sign Language ...

  6. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    The interpretation flow is normally between a sign language and a spoken language that are customarily used in the same country, such as French Sign Language (LSF) and spoken French in France, Spanish Sign Language (LSE) to spoken Spanish in Spain, British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English in the U.K., and American Sign Language (ASL) and ...

  7. 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 ]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Japanese manual syllabary - Wikipedia

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    HA: the index and middle fingers extended forward, rather like ASL h: HI: a JSL 1 or ASL d hand: the index finger extended upward: FU: an ASL L hand (extended index and thumb) pointed downward: HE: an ASL y hand (extended little finger and thumb) pointed downward: HO: a bent b hand facing the signer, a rotated ko: MA: an ASL w hand (thumb ...