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  2. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    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. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features . [5]

  3. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. [1]

  4. Great ape language - Wikipedia

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    Research into great ape language has involved teaching chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans to communicate with humans and each other using sign language, physical tokens, lexigrams, and imitative human speech. Some primatologists argue that the use of these communication methods indicate primate "language" ability, though this depends ...

  5. Washoe (chimpanzee) - Wikipedia

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    Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition. Washoe learned approximately 350 signs of ASL, also teaching her adopted son Loulis some signs.

  6. History of sign language - Wikipedia

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    The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references to forms of communication using hand gestures date back as far as 5th century BC Greece. Sign language is composed of a system of conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs and finger spelling ...

  7. Learn American Sign Language with this $20 bundle - AOL

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    TL;DR: As of April 21, you can sign up for the All-in-One American Sign Language Bundle for only $19.97 — that's just $1.53 per course.American Sign Language (ASL) is a fun, interesting, and ...

  8. British Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    British Sign Language (BSL) is a sign language used in the United Kingdom and is the first or preferred language among the deaf community in the UK. While private correspondence from William Stokoe hinted at a formal name for the language in 1960, [4] the first usage of the term "British Sign Language" in an academic publication was likely by ...

  9. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    Signing Exact English ( SEE-II, sometimes Signed Exact English) is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English language vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. It is related to Seeing Essential English (SEE-I), a manual sign system created in ...

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