The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

Local variants such as Ghanaian Sign Language and Nigerian Sign Language arose in anglophone countries as well.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

Moroccan Sign Language was developed by the American Peace Corps on a base of ASL along with incorporating local signs.

In the Philippines, ASL is widely understood by the Deaf community, though it is not the ancestor of Philippine Sign Language as sometimes thought.

See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

In Anglophone distribution, In the Land of the Deaf was presented in French Sign Language ( FSL ) and French, with English subtitles and closed captions.

* New Zealand Sign Language Week happens once every year in May, Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand organises NZSL Week with over 500 events happening in New Zealand to help promote the language as well as raise awareness about New Zealand ’ s Deaf community.

Sign languages are natural languages which have developed in Deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.

SignWriting is also being used in the recently published Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary containing more than 3, 600 signs used by the Deaf of São Paulo, published by the University of São Paulo under the direction of Prof. Fernando Capovilla ( EJ669813 – Brazilian Sign Language Lexicography and Technology: Dictionary, Digital Encyclopedia, Chereme-based Sign Retrieval, and Quadriplegic Deaf Communication Systems.

* Signing choirs ( of Deaf or Hearing individuals ), using Sign Language rather than voices

International Sign ( IS ) is an international auxiliary language sometimes used at international meetings such as the World Federation of the Deaf ( WFD ) congress, events such as the Deaflympics, and informally when travelling and socialising.

International Sign is a term used by the World Federation of the Deaf and other international organisations.

A book published by the commission in the early 1970s, Gestuno: International Sign Language of the Deaf, contains a vocabulary list of about 1500 signs.

* Digital version of Gestuno: International Sign Language of the Deaf / Langage Gestuel International des Sourds — Contains original IS signs ( many now outdated ) in photograph form

* Digital version of Gestuno: International Sign Language of the Deaf / Langage Gestuel International des Sounds

" ( International Studies on Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf ; 29 ) Hamburg: Signum ( 1995 )-pp.

Gallaudet then travelled to Paris and learned the educational methods of the French Royal Institution for the Deaf, a combination of Old French Sign Language and the signs developed by Abbé de l ’ Épée.

The evolution of the language and its changing level of acceptance means that older users tend to rely on finger spelling while younger ones make use of a wider range of gestures .< ref > Sign Language: The Study of Deaf People and Their Language </ span > J. G. Kyle, B. Woll, G. Pullen, F. Maddix, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

The British Deaf Association has formed the BSL Academy to provide an official British Sign Language curriculum and tutor training.

" Comparing the lexicons of Japanese Sign Language and Taiwan Sign Language: a preliminary study focusing on the difference in the handshape parameter ," Sign Language in Contact: Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities ( David Quinto-Pozos, editor ).

This school became known as the birthplace of the Deaf community in the U. S., and the different sign systems used there, including MVSL, merged to become American Sign Language or ASL — now one of the largest community languages in the country.

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" Stowe's Rainbow Sign: Violence and Community in Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp ( 1856 ).

* Sign Language / Spanish Sign Language ( LSE ): Communicative Mediation within the Deaf Community

* Sign Community

Promotional literature for this proposed new system has generated considerable controversy in the UK Deaf Community and alarm among Sign Language Professionals because of remarks about British Sign Language by the charities Operations Director styling it a " basic communication system ".

Local amenities include a Post Office, supermarket, licensed newsagents, chemist, two hair salons, estate agency and lettings agency, decorating supplies, hardware and motorparts outlet, betting shop, garage, Butchers, Newsagent, Library, Miner's Welfare, tea rooms, schools, Internet Cafe, Chinese restaurant, ' Community Centre ', chip shop, Dentist, Doctors surgery, Garden centre, Sign maker, and a flower shop.

* Sign of the Silver Hand ( 1996 )

* Trovillion Press at the Sign of the Silver Horse, set up by Hal W. Trovillion in Herrin, Illinois in 1908.

" Delights for Ladies " was reprinted in the United States by Trovillion Private Press in 1939 and a second limited edition printing of 498 copies took place by the same publisher in the summer 1942 on W .& A. Ash-White Arak paper at the Sign of the Silver Horse, which is at Herrin in Illinois, U. S. A. for Violet and Hal W. Trovillion with all copies signed, numbered and type distributed.

* The First Sign of Spring: OOLIGAN

" Chaitra " can also be used as a name, with the meaning of " Spring " or " Aries Sign "

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Meemul Tziij: An Indigenous Sign Language Complex of Mesoamerica, Sign Language Studies, 9 ( 3 ): 324 – 366 ( Spring 2009 ).

2002, A Descriptive Analysis of Pointing and Oral Movements in a Home Sign System, in " Sign Language Studies "-Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 2002, pp. 281 – 295