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Argentine Sign Language (LSA) exhibits a distinct grammatical structure that differs from spoken languages such as Spanish. Notably, LSA lacks the concept of "Sujeto tácito" (tacit subject), a grammatical feature found in Spanish where the subject is inferred from the verb conjugation without explicit expression.
Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken Korean. Macau Sign Language: Shanghai Sign Language "澳門手語" (MSL). Derives from the southern dialect of CSL. Malaysian Sign Language: ASL "Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia" (BIM) Maldivian Sign Language (Dhivehi Sign Language) Indian, ASL Maunabudhuk–Bodhe Sign Language: village: Nepal ...
Filipino Sign Language – Sign Language Official language in: the Philippines; Finnish – Suomi Official language in: Finland and the Russian autonomous republic of Karelia; recognised as a minority language in Sweden; Fon – Fon gbè, Fɔngbè Spoken by: the Beninois/Nigerian Fon people; French – Français
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Madsen, Willard J. (1982), Intermediate Conversational Sign Language. Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-0-913580-79-0. O'Reilly, S. (2005). Indigenous Sign Language and Culture; the interpreting and access needs of Deaf people who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander in Far North Queensland. Sponsored by ASLIA, the Australian Sign ...
The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System (HamNoSys) is a transcription system for all sign languages (including American sign language). It has a direct correspondence between symbols and gesture aspects, such as hand location, shape and movement. [1] It was developed in 1984 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. [2]
The Republic of Argentina has not established, legally, an official language; however, Spanish has been utilized since the founding of the Argentine state by the administration of the Republic and is used in education in all public establishments, so much so that in basic and secondary levels there is a mandatory subject of Spanish (a subject called "language").
Until a person receives a sign name, the person's name is usually fingerspelled, [1] rendering a letter-by-letter representation of a person's English-language name. [2] Linguist Samuel James Supalla identifies name signs as having dual functions: to identify persons and to signify "membership in the Deaf community."