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Meanings of sign languages in English

Russian
жестовый язык
Portuguese
lingua de sinais
Spanish
lenguas de signos
Catalan
llengua dels signes
Wikidata

Language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning.

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жестовый язык
Usage of sign languages in English
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The most recent edition of Ethnologue, published earlier this year, mentions 141 sign languages.
The Guardian
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For most of recorded history, sign languages have been effectively invisible to hearing people.
The Guardian
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Irish and British sign languages have joint recognition in Northern Ireland, it was confirmed today.
The Irish Times
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For sign languages, and for Deaf culture more broadly, intergenerational transmission is far from straightforward.
The Guardian
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The old sign languages for the speech and hearing impaired are definitely the place to begin.
Ashes Of Victory
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For James Woodward, the mass extinction of sign languages is bound up in prejudice and chauvinism.
The Guardian
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Though they parallel spoken languages in certain ways, sign languages represent a fundamentally different way of communicating.
The Guardian
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We need linguistic research on sign languages.
Radio NZ
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She is fluent in variety of sign languages and had just learned Irish Sign Language (ISL).
The Irish Times
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Nor are all sign languages mutually intelligible, as hearing people often assume -they are as various as spoken languages.
The Guardian
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Now that the kind of geographical isolation that once bred new languages is no more, sign languages represent something of a final frontier.
The Guardian
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Gestures of the face, arms, and hands are components of signed languages used by Deaf people.
Pubmed
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Maahlamela added that South African Sign Languages is a language with its own distinct grammatical structures and lexicon.
The South African