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The enwiki ASL article lists a number of other countries that use ASL, but this map is based on its PNG predecessor of the same name. Date: 15 July 2024: Source: Derivative work from File:BlankMap-World.svg. Author: Myself, along with the editors of File:ASL map (world).png and the original blank map. Permission (Reusing this file)
Language Origin Notes 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 ...
Spanish Sign Language: French Sign Language family or Language isolate (disputed) Spain except Catalonia and Valencia: Officially recognized by Spanish Government: 523,000 (2017) Egyptian Sign Language: Arab sign-language family: Egypt: 474,000 (2014) [4] American Sign Language: Old French Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
The languages of Poland include Polish – the language of the native population – and those of immigrants and their descendants. Polish is the only official language recognized by the country's constitution and the majority of the country's population speak it as a native language or use it for home communication.
In some states, the study of American Sign Language is eligible for foreign language credit at the high school level. In 2015, California became the first US state to legislate language development milestone guidance pertaining to children whose first language is a signed language.
Polish Sign Language (Polish: Polski język migowy, PJM) is the language of the deaf community in Poland. Polish Sign Language uses a distinctive one-handed manual alphabet based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language and therefore appears to be related to French Sign Language .
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 ...
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 ]