Significados de sign languages em inglês

The most recent edition of Ethnologue, published earlier this year, mentions 141 sign languages.

For most of recorded history, sign languages have been effectively invisible to hearing people.

Irish and British sign languages have joint recognition in Northern Ireland, it was confirmed today.

For sign languages, and for Deaf culture more broadly, intergenerational transmission is far from straightforward.

The old sign languages for the speech and hearing impaired are definitely the place to begin.

For James Woodward, the mass extinction of sign languages is bound up in prejudice and chauvinism.

Though they parallel spoken languages in certain ways, sign languages represent a fundamentally different way of communicating.

We need linguistic research on sign languages.

She is fluent in variety of sign languages and had just learned Irish Sign Language (ISL).

Nor are all sign languages mutually intelligible, as hearing people often assume -they are as various as spoken languages.

Now that the kind of geographical isolation that once bred new languages is no more, sign languages represent something of a final frontier.

Gestures of the face, arms, and hands are components of signed languages used by Deaf people.

Maahlamela added that South African Sign Languages is a language with its own distinct grammatical structures and lexicon.