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Varieties of American Sign Language, the Glossary

American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL).^[1]

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American Sign Language family
French Sign Language family
Languages of Benin
Languages of Costa Rica
Languages of Gabon
Languages of Guinea
Languages of Mauritania
Languages of Niger
Languages of Senegal
Languages of Togo
Languages of the Central African Republic
Languages of the Republic of the Congo

Accra

Accra (Ga or Gaga; Nkran; Ewe: Gɛ; Ankara) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Adamorobe Sign Language

Adamorobe Sign Language or AdaSL is a village sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in eastern Ghana.

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African French (français africain) is the generic name of the varieties of the French language spoken by an estimated 167 million people in Africa in 2023 or 51% of the French-speaking population of the world spread across 34 countries and territories.

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Akuapim-Mampong

Akuapim-Mampong is a town in the Akuapim North district of the Eastern Region of Ghana.

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Algerian Sign Language

Algerian Sign Language is the sign language most commonly used in Algeria. Varieties of American Sign Language and Algerian Sign Language are French Sign Language family.

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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. Varieties of American Sign Language and American Sign Language are American Sign Language family and French Sign Language family.

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Andrew Foster (educator)

Andrew Jackson Foster (1925–1987) was an American pioneer of deaf education in several countries in Africa.

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Bribri Sign Language

Bribri Sign Language was a village sign language of an indigenous Bribri community in southern Costa Rica.

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Brunca Sign Language

Brunca Sign Language is a village sign language of an indigenous Brunca community in southern Costa Rica.

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Bura Sign Language

Bura Sign Language is a village sign language used by the Bura people around the village of Kukurpu, 40 km (25 miles) south-east of Biu, Nigeria, an area with a high degree of congenital deafness.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Chiriqui Sign Language

Chiriqui Sign Language (Spanish: Lengua de Señas de Chiriquí, LSCH) is the principal deaf sign language of the province of Chiriquí in Panama.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Deaf culture

Deaf culture is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

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El Diario de Hoy

Diario de Hoy is a morning newspaper in El Salvador.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Varieties of American Sign Language and French language are languages of Benin, languages of Burkina Faso, languages of Cameroon, languages of Chad, languages of Gabon, languages of Guinea, languages of Ivory Coast, languages of Mali, languages of Mauritania, languages of Niger, languages of Senegal, languages of Togo, languages of the Central African Republic and languages of the Republic of the Congo.

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French Sign Language

French Sign Language (langue des signes française, LSF) is the sign language of the deaf in France and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. Varieties of American Sign Language and French Sign Language are French Sign Language family.

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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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French West Africa

French West Africa (Afrique-Occidentale française, italic) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger.

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Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University is a private federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.

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Hausa Sign Language

Hausa Sign Language (HSL; or) is the indigenous sign language of the Deaf community in northern Nigeria.

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Home sign

Home sign (or kitchen sign) is a gestural communication system, often invented spontaneously by a deaf child who lacks accessible linguistic input.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jamaican Country Sign Language

Jamaican Country Sign Language, also Country Sign, or Konchri Sain (KS) in Jamaican Patois, is an indigenous village sign language of Jamaica.

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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Malaysian Sign Language

Malaysian Sign Language (Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia, or BIM) is the principal language of the deaf community of Malaysia. Varieties of American Sign Language and Malaysian Sign Language are American Sign Language family.

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Mixed language

A mixed language, also referred to as a hybrid language, contact language, or fusion language, is a language that arises among a bilingual group combining aspects of two or more languages but not clearly deriving primarily from any single language.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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Nanabin Sign Language

Nanabin Sign Language is a family sign language of the coastal Fante village of Ekumfi Nanabin in the Central Region of Ghana, ca.

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Navrongo

Navrongo is a town and the capital of Kassena-Nankana District in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Norwegian Sign Language

Norwegian Sign Language, or NSL (Norwegian or, NTS), is the principal sign language in Norway. Varieties of American Sign Language and Norwegian Sign Language are French Sign Language family.

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Old Costa Rican Sign Language

Old Costa Rican Sign Language is a deaf-community sign language of San Jose, spoken by people born before about 1945.

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Oujda

Oujda (وجدة) is a major Moroccan city in its northeast near the border with Algeria.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Penang Sign Language

Penang Sign Language was developed in Malaysia by deaf children, outside the classroom, when oralism was predominant.

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Puerto Rico

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

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Riberalta

Riberalta is a town in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, situated where the Madre de Dios River joins the Beni River.

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Rwandan Sign Language

It is not clear what the sign language or languages are in Rwanda.

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Salvadoran Sign Language

Salvadoran Sign Language (LESSA) is a language used by the deaf community in El Salvador.

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Schools for the deaf

The first school for the deaf was established in France during the 18th century, in 1771 by Charles-Michel de l'Épée.

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Selangor

Selangor, also known by the Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 states of Malaysia.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.

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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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SIL International

SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.

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Stratum (linguistics)

In linguistics, a stratum (Latin for "layer") or strate is a historical layer of language that influences or is influenced by another language through contact.

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Tétouan

Tétouan (tiṭwān), is a city in northern Morocco.

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Tunisian Sign Language

Tunisian Sign Language is the sign language used by deaf people in Tunisia. Varieties of American Sign Language and Tunisian Sign Language are French Sign Language family.

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Ugandan Sign Language

Ugandan Sign Language (USL) is the deaf sign language of Uganda.

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Varieties of American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL). Varieties of American Sign Language and Varieties of American Sign Language are American Sign Language family, French Sign Language family, languages of Benin, languages of Bolivia, languages of Burkina Faso, languages of Cameroon, languages of Chad, languages of Costa Rica, languages of Gabon, languages of Ghana, languages of Guinea, languages of Ivory Coast, languages of Mali, languages of Mauritania, languages of Niger, languages of Nigeria, languages of Senegal, languages of Togo, languages of the Central African Republic and languages of the Republic of the Congo.

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Village sign language

A village sign language, or village sign, also known as a shared sign language, is a local indigenous sign language used by both deaf and hearing in an area with a high incidence of congenital deafness.

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Yoruba Sign Language

Yoruba Sign Language (YSL) is an indigenous sign language of the deaf community in Yoruba-speaking communities of southwestern Nigeria.

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References

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

Also known as Bolivian Sign Language, Burundian Sign Language, Chadian Sign Language, Congolese Sign Language, Costa Rican Sign Language, Dominican Sign Language, Francophone African Sign Language, Ghanaian Sign Language, Guinean Sign Language, Haitian Sign Language, ISO 639:bvl, ISO 639:cds, ISO 639:csr, ISO 639:doq, ISO 639:gse, ISO 639:gus, ISO 639:jls, ISO 639:kgi, ISO 639:lsb, ISO 639:lsp, ISO 639:nsi, ISO 639:psl, ISO 639:sgx, ISO 639:xms, Jamaican Sign Language, KLSL, Kuala Lumpur Sign Language, LSAF, Langue des Signes Burundaise, Langue des Signes Zairoise, Langue des Signes d'Afrique Francophone, Langue des signes de l'Afrique francophone, Lengua de Señas Panameñas, Lenguaje de Señas Bolivianas, Modern Costa Rican Sign Language, Moroccan Sign Language, New Costa Rican Sign Language, Nigerian Sign Language, Panamanian Sign Language, Puerto Rican Sign Language, Selangor Sign Language, Sierra Leone Sign Language, Sierra Leonean Sign Language, Varieties of ASL.

, Selangor, Sierra Leone, Sign language, SIL International, Stratum (linguistics), Tétouan, Tunisian Sign Language, Ugandan Sign Language, Varieties of American Sign Language, Village sign language, Yoruba Sign Language.

Varieties of American Sign Language, the Glossary

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See also

American Sign Language family

French Sign Language family

Languages of Benin

Languages of Costa Rica

Languages of Gabon

Languages of Guinea

Languages of Mauritania

Languages of Niger

Languages of Senegal

Languages of Togo

Languages of the Central African Republic

Languages of the Republic of the Congo

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