American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second lang...
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(from the article `sign language`) ...words with a manual alphabet and expressing whole concepts with simple signs. From l`Epée`s system developed French Sign Language (FSL), still in ...
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(ASL) Type: Term Definitions: 1. the manual sign and gesture language used by the deaf community in the U.S. It is a language distinct from English, with its own grammar and syntax, but no written form.
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American Sign Language: Abbreviated ASL. A complete, complex language that employs signs made with the hands and other movements, including facial expressions and postures of the body, used primarily by people in North America who are deaf.
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(ASL) The dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in parts of Mexico.
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Sign language used by the deaf community and others in many parts of North America
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a visual-gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English-speaking parts of Canada. Abbr.: ASL Also called
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(ASL) manual (hand) language with its own syntax and grammar used primarily by people who are deaf.
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