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	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
		According to a SIL report, sign languages of Russia, Moldova and Ukraine share a high degree of lexical similarity and may be dialects of one language, or distinct related languages.
		Sign languages of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq (and possibly Saudi Arabia) may be part of a sprachbund, or may be one dialect of a larger Eastern Arabic Sign Language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_families_and_languages (1626 words)

	Taiwanese Sign Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) is the sign language most commonly used in Taiwan.
		Serious linguistic research on TSL began in the 1970s and is continuing at present.
		The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1-2, 2003, at Chung Cheng University in Minhsiung, Chiayi Co., Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_Sign_Language (132 words)

	Sign language
		Sign languages are developed in deaf communities, but they are used by interpreters, professionals in the sign language industry, friends and family members of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hearing-impaired.
		In linguistic terms, sign languages can be as rich and complex as any spoken languages, despite the common misconception that they are not "real languages" Professional linguists have studied many sign languages and found them to have every linguistic component required to be classed as a true language.
		Sign languages are not simple pantomime, and they are not a visual rendition of a simplified version of any spoken language.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Sign_language.html (1089 words)

	Taiwanese (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwanese is a variant of Min-nan which is spoken in Taiwan.
		Taiwanese has extremely extensive tone sandhi (tone-changing) rules: in an utterance, only the last syllable pronounced is not affected by the rules.
		Although the use of Taiwanese over Mandarin was historically part of the Taiwan independence movement, the linkage between politics and language is not as strong as it once was.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwanese_language (4205 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sign language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		American Indians were known to use a signed pidgin to facilitate communication among tribes who used different spoken languages, and people in situations where silence is desirable (such as military operations) or where speech is impossible (for example when scuba diving) often employ some form of sign to communicate.
		A sign language is one that uses combinations of handshapes, movements of the hands, arms and/or body, and facial expressions to convey information, instead of using sounds.
		The only sign language writing system which has been actually used by deaf people to write, is Sign Writing, which rather than being developed by a linguist was devised by a dancer.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sign_language (845 words)

	Sign language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sign languages are developed in deaf communities which include interpreters and friends families of deaf people as well as who are deaf or hearing-impaired themselves.
		Sign languages have also arisen in hearing American Indians of the Great Plains region used a sign language to among tribes who used different spoken languages and there are a few users alive today.
		Sign languages are not often most deaf people who use sign language and write the spoken language of their However there have been attempts at developing for recording sign language.
	www.freeglossary.com /Sign_language (1444 words)

	Sign language Article, Signlanguage Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A sign language is a language which uses gestures instead of sound to convey meaning - combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands,arms or body, facial expressions and lip-patterns.
		Sign languages are not simple pantomime, and they are not a visual renditionof a simplified version of any spoken language.
		Sign languages are not often written; most deaf people whouse sign language read and write the spoken language of their country.
	www.anoca.org /languages/spoken/sign_language.html (1113 words)

	Sign language
		A sign language is a language which uses gestures instead of sound to convey meaning - combining handshapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, facial expressions and lip-patterns.
		Sign languages are usually developed in deaf communities, which include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hearing-impaired themselves.
		They are not based on the spoken language in the country of origin (although various signed "modes" of spoken languages have been developed, such as Signed English and Walpiri Sign Language).
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/s/si/sign_language.html (1107 words)

	Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altaic languages (the status of the Altaic languages is disputed; Turkic languages are clearly spoken in this region)
		A group of sign "languages" known as manually coded languages are more properly understood as signed modes of spoken languages, and therefore belong to the language family of the spoken language; one example of such a signed language is Warlpiri Sign Language.
		Auslan, NZSL and BSL are usually considered to belong to a language family known as BANZSL, and Japanese Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language are thought to be members of a Japanese Sign Language family.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Language_family (994 words)

	Deaf Culture Guide
		This collection of essays written by professionals in the field of sign language research describes how sign language is used in society and how research on sign language has altered society's understanding of deaf people and their culture.
		Students and collaborators honor Bellugi and Klima, scholars of signed language at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, with 28 studies in the historical and comparative analysis of sign languages, language in the visual-spatial modality, the linguistic analysis of sign languages, language acquisition, and the neural organization of sign language.
		Established linguistic concerns with deaf language are reexamined and redefined, and several new issues of general importance to all sociolinguists are raised and explored.
	wally.rit.edu /pubs/guides/socdeaf.html (1614 words)

	Sign Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sign language used by people who are hearing impaired or have severe speech or language problems expands upon this natural tendency to use gestures for communication.
		Sign language is not directly related to spoken language and is not universal from country to country.
		None is related to the spoken language of the country, and only a very small percentage of the signs used are identical from sign language to sign language.
	www.d93.k12.id.us /~sservice/Sign_Language.html (586 words)

	Sign Language(s) Dictionaries
		It is with this human frailty in mind that this book has been written; not for those who have had no sign language experience, but for serious interpreters and signers whose memories need occasional assistance and who wish to increase their sign language repertoires.
		This unique compilation of ASL signs is the ideal, up-to-date reference tool -- providing access to cyberspace for members of the Deaf community, their families, friends, teachers, and colleagues.Includes full-torso illustrations and descriptions of how to make the signs• Lookup made easy through multiple cross references• Full definitions, not merely one-word glossaries.
		Signs are clearly illustrated and notes on the derivation of each sign are presented.
	wally.rit.edu /pubs/guides/signdict.html (3969 words)

	Sign Languages of the World, by Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Oporto Sign Language = DIALECT of Portuguese Sign Language: Portugal
		Serbian Sign Language = DIALECT of Yugoslavian Sign Language: Yugoslavia
		Trondheim Sign Language = DIALECT of Norwegian Sign Language: Norway
	library.gallaudet.edu /dr/faq-world-sl-name.html (4209 words)

	Implementing the ISO 639-2 code for Sign Languages
		Linguists have long recognized that Sign Languages are true languages, and the world's Sign Languages, used by Deaf and hearing people, have been provided with an identifying code in ISO 639-2, the International Standard which specifies 3-letter codes to identify the names of languages.
		When Evertype, as a registrar for Sign Language extensions, has positive information regarding the uniqueness of a Sign Language, the code is registered with IETF and noted here in Table A. The remaining codes (in Table B) must be considered provisional until they are verified by experts.
		It is being tested in schools and appears to raise literacy levels of born-deaf children, by providing a written base for their native (signed) language and the written (spoken) language of the majority in the countries in which they live.
	www.evertype.com /standards/iso639/sgn.html (863 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first language group is the Japanese Sign Language Family, composed of Japanese Sign Language (JSL), Taiwanese Sign Language (TSL) and Korean Sign Language (KSL).
		Analysis is performed on data from the standard dialects of each (based, respectively in Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul, and represented in standard sign language dictionaries and glossaries), as well as from several non-standard dialects of JSL (data collected by interview).
		Generally speaking, the results of the analyses show that the three languages of the JSL language group are indeed separate languages, and whereas the dialects examined for Eastern JSL do form a monophyletic dialect group, those examined for Western JSL do not.
	www.ub.es /ling/tislr8/Morgan.doc (604 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Taiwanese is close to Amoy dialect; intelligibility is not very difficult.
		The sources from which the sign language developed were indigenous sign systems before 1895, Japanese occupation and education 1895-1946, Mainland Chinese Sign Language brought by refugees in 1949 and some from Hongkong since.
		Quite distinct from (Mainland) Chinese Sign Language; only a few signs are the same or similar.
	www.uga.edu /~cml/wl (995 words)

	karenika - books - for hearing people only
		It is thought that native sign language of Chilmark and Tisbury, the Martha's Vineyard communities with an unusual high incidence of hereditary deafness, evolved from Old Kentish Sign Language, as the earliest deaf settlers came from the Kentish region of England.
		Scandinavian sign languages, (e.g., Swedish Sign Language) form an important group, rich and vibrant, whose artistic possibilities have begun to be explored.
		Some African sign languages are influenced by the native sign languages of missionaries.
	www.karenika.com /book/hearing_only.html (780 words)

	Wikiversity:School of Linguistics - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Besides the above languages that have arisen spontaneously out of the capability for vocal communication, there are also languages that share many of their important properties.
		The study of the use of language in a social context.
		Computational linguists often use large bodies of digitized text or speech called corpora as a basis for teaching computer programs the proper use of a language, or to compare the use of a language in one context to it's use in another context.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikiversity:School_of_Linguistics (556 words)

	Sign language - Gurupedia
		Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, are often stated as inventors of "Sign Language").
		The only sign language writing system which has been actually used by deaf people to write, is
		SignWriting, which rather than being developed by a linguist was devised by a dancer.
	www.gurupedia.com /s/si/sign_language.htm (1064 words)

	Ethnologue, Languages of the World
		Over 12,000 citations spanning 70 years of SIL International's language research in over 1,000 languages.
		Books about languages and cultures of the world for education, research, and reference.
		Computer resources including an extensive library for language researchers and software tools and fonts.
	www.sil.org /ethnologue/countries/Taiw.html (74 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This hypothesis explored here is that, while we will see differences in hand configuration in classifier constructions in signed languages, we will find few crosslinguistic differences in the expression of motion and spatial relationships due to their similarity to iconic gestures.
		In overview, the comparison of motion verb data from these unrelated signed languages indicates (1) no significant differences in the uses of space and movement, and (2) cross-linguistic differences and similarities in the use of handshape units to represent referents.
		Auslan and TSL productions in the VMP task are strikingly similar to existing ASL data in the use of space and some features of movement.
	www.ub.es /ling/tislr8/Schembri-Jones-Burnham.doc (541 words)

	Natural - Search Engine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Language from a Typological Perspective - B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
		Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History - Historical linguistics research by M. Miles.
		Sign Language Assessment - Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
	www.friendsabroad.com /resources/cat.asp?/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Sign_Languages (481 words)

	Sign Languages of the World, by Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In many countries, the Deaf sign languages are barred in schools for the deaf and are used mainly outside the classroom and within the Deaf community.
		Often, particularly in developing countries, non-native Deaf sign languages have been introduced by religious missionaries and by educators of the Deaf who were trained in other countries.
		Indian Sign Language and Pakistan Sign Language, and their respective dialects, have traditionally been considered separate sign languages, but recent research indicates that they are actually both dialects of a broader-based Indo-Pakistan Sign Language.
	library.gallaudet.edu /dr/faq-world-sl-country.html (1312 words)

	Complexity Digest - Text Generation From Taiwanese Sign Language
		Text Generation From Taiwanese Sign Language, IEEE Tran.
		First, a sign icon-based virtual keyboard is constructed to provide a visualized interface to retrieve sign icons from a sign database.
		The PST tree trained by a corpus collected from the deaf schools was used to model the correspondence between signed and written Chinese.
	www.comdig.org /article.php?id_article=19938 (157 words)

	Taiwanese Sign Language
		A gesture in TWL consists of one or more postures sequentially moved or posed to some position or direction.
		Each gesture can be thought as a vocabulary in a lexicon, and a sentence is a sequence of gestures.
		Moreover, there are two styles of gesture in TWL: natural sign language and grammatical sign language.
	www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw /~f1506028/TSL.html (166 words)

	Find.hm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Taiwanese Composers - Brief biographies of Chih-Yuan Kuo, Ming-Chung Sheu, Tyzen Hsiao, Chang-Huei Hsu, Yu-Hsien Teng, and Lin-Chiu Lee from the Taiwanese Student Association at the University of Maryland.
		Language Attitudes Toward Written Taiwanese - A survey on current issues regarding the Taiwanese writing system.
		Taiwanese Chilopoda - Introduction to the taxonomy, morphology, and the history of the study of centipedes in Taiwan.
	find.hm /search.php?search=taiwanese (381 words)

	Proposed ISO 639-2 code for Sign Languages
		Although linguists have for decades recognized them as true languages, the world's Sign Languages, used by Deaf and hearing people, were overlooked during the drafting of ISO 639-2, the standard which specifies 3-letter codes to identify the names of languages.
		It is here proposed that a single 3-letter code, sgn, for Sign Languages be added to ISO 639-2, and that, as necessary, other codes be appended to that code to specify different Sign Languages.
		A number of them require additionally one of the regional extensions specified in ISO 3166-2; some extensions are language codes taken from the Bibliographical codes found in in ISO 639-2 where further precision is required, such as where more than one Sign Language occurs in a country.
	www.evertype.com /standards/iso639/sign-language.html (452 words)

	Deaf Culture: Japanese Sign Language
		JSL is a distinct sign language with unique vocabulary and grammar that is unrelated to ASL although it has some relation to Korean Sign Language and Taiwanese Sign Language.
		There are minor variations of signs and grammar from region to region and island to island.
		Only a minority of schools have sign language and most of time they use the Manual Sign Language over the preferred JSL.
	www.deafe.org /newsletter/3-1/japanesesign.htm (222 words)

	Language
		According to the numbers in Ethnologue,the largest language families in terms of number of languages are:
		Ethnologue lists about 6,800 main languages in its language name indexand distinguishes about 41,000 alternative language names and dialects.
		The list(Incomplete) of world languages are given below(For detailed list Ethnologue lists may be viewed):
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (454 words)

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