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Italian Sign Language, the Glossary

Index Italian Sign Language

Italian Sign Language (LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy.[1]

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  1. 17 relations: American Sign Language, Basque language, Deafblindness, Deafness, Dual (grammatical number), French Sign Language family, Grammatical number, Indo-European languages, Italian language, Italy, Manually coded language, San Marino, Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf, Sign language, Switzerland, Tactile signing, William Stokoe.

  2. French Sign Language family
  3. Languages of Italy
  4. Languages of San Marino
  5. Languages of Switzerland

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. Italian Sign Language and American Sign Language are French Sign Language family.

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Basque language

Basque (euskara) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.

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Deafblindness

Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful hearing and little or no useful sight.

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Deafness

Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts.

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Dual (grammatical number)

Dual (abbreviated) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.

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French Sign Language family

The French Sign Language (LSF, from) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian Sign Language and italian language are languages of Italy, languages of San Marino and languages of Switzerland.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Manually coded language

Manually coded languages (MCLs) are a family of gestural communication methods which include gestural spelling as well as constructed languages which directly interpolate the grammar and syntax of oral languages in a gestural-visual form—that is, signed versions of oral languages.

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San Marino

San Marino (San Maréin or San Maroin), officially the Republic of San Marino (Repubblica di San Marino) and also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino), is a European microstate and enclave within Italy.

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Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf

The Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf was an international conference of deaf educators held in Milan, Italy in 1880.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tactile signing

Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness.

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William Stokoe

William Clarence “Bill” Stokoe Jr. (July 21, 1919 – April 4, 2000) was an American linguist and a long-time professor at Gallaudet University.

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See also

French Sign Language family

Languages of Italy

Languages of San Marino

Languages of Switzerland

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Sign_Language

Also known as ISO 639:ise, ISO 639:slf, Italian Sign Language language, Swiss-Italian Sign Language.