British Sign Language ( BSL ) is the sign language used in the United Kingdom ( UK ), and is the first or preferred language of some deaf people in the UK ; there are 125, 000 deaf adults in the UK who use BSL plus an estimated 20, 000 children.

Many thousands of people who are not deaf also use BSL, as hearing relatives of deaf people, sign language interpreters or as a result of other contact with the British deaf community.

Like many other sign languages, BSL phonology is defined by elements such as hand shape, orientation, location, and motion.

The sign languages used in Australia and New Zealand, Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language, respectively, evolved largely from 19th century BSL, and all retain the same manual alphabet and grammar and possess similar lexicons.

The sign language used in Sri Lanka is also closely related to BSL despite the oral language not being English, demonstrating the distance between sign languages and spoken ones.

In such cases the interpretation flow is normally within the same principal language, such as French Sign Language ( FSL ) to spoken French, Spanish Sign Language ( SSL ) to spoken Spanish, British Sign Language ( BSL ) to spoken English, and American Sign Language ( ASL ) also to spoken English ( since BSL and ASL are completely distinct ), etc .... Multilingual sign language interpreters, who can also translate as well across principal languages ( such as to and from SSL, to and from spoken English ), are also available, albeit less frequently.

BSL, Auslan and NZSL all have their roots in a deaf sign language used in Britain during the 19th century.

Future projects include Baby Signing, family sign classes and a Touring Schools Programme introducing BSL through drama.

BSL is also distinct from Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) ( ISG in the ISO system ) which is more closely related to French Sign Language ( LSF ) and ASL.

Auslan, BSL and NZSL have 82 % of signs identical ( using concepts from a Swadesh list ).

Course entry requirements vary from no previous knowledge of BSL to NVQ level 6 BSL ( or equivalent ).

For example, in the United Kingdom, Makaton uses signs from British Sign Language ( BSL ).

In 2009 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from BSL, Business School Lausanne.

Bounty hunter Samus Aran, the protagonist, explores the surface of the planet SR388 with a survey crew from Biologic Space Laboratories ( BSL ).

Samus is unknowingly infected by the virus, and proceeds to return to the BSL station, when she suddenly loses consciousness and is ejected from her ship before it crashes into a nearby asteroid belt.

Auslan is related to British Sign Language ( BSL ); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family.

These two dialects may have roots in older dialectic differences from the United Kingdom, brought over by Deaf immigrants who founded the first schools for the deaf in Australia — English varieties ( from London ) in Melbourne and Scottish ones ( from Edinburgh ) in Sydney, although the relationship between lexical variation in the UK and Australia appears much more complicated than this ( some Auslan signs appear similar to signs used in the Newcastle variety of BSL, for example ).

SAIL has incorporated another joint venture company with M / s JaiPrakash Associates Ltd to set up a 2. 1 MT cement plant at Bokaro utilizing slag from BSL.

* Honoris Causa from BSL, Business School Lausanne in 2011.

The Broad Street Line ( BSL ) ( also known as the Broad Street Subway ( BSS ) or Orange Line ) is a rapid transit line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority that runs from Fern Rock Transportation Center in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia.

According to Wittmann ( 1991 ), Swedish Sign Language also descends from BSL.

The Irish Deaf Society says that ISL " arose from within deaf communities ", " was developed by deaf people themselves " and " has been in existence for hundreds of years ", but according to Ethnologue the language arose in its current form in 1846 and 1849 in the girls ' and boys ' schools respectively, BSL having been introduced in Dublin in 1816.

In March 2009, he signed with Bnei HaSharon from the Israeli BSL for the remainder of the season.

Interpreters may apply for the status of " Junior Trainee Interpreter " after completing the Level III / NVQ 3 BSL assessment ( they must also be enrolled on a recognised interpreter training programme, have completed some initial training and have professional indemnity insurance to register ).

New Zealand Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language ( BSL ), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language ( BANZSL ).

BSL may refer to:

These may include serum BSL if olanzapine has previously been prescribed, thyroid function if lithium has previously been taken to rule out hypothyroidism, liver function tests if chlorpromazine has been prescribed, and CPK levels to exclude neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

New Zealand Sign Language has its roots in British Sign Language ( BSL ), and may be technically considered a dialect of British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language ( BANZSL ).

BANZSL, or British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Language, is the language of which British Sign Language ( BSL ), Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language ( NZSL ) may be considered dialects.

Further information will be available after the completion of the BSL corpus is completed and allows for comparison with the Auslan corpus and the Sociolinguistic Variation in New Zealand Sign Language project.

There continues to be language contact between BSL, Auslan and NZSL through migration ( deaf people and interpreters ), the media ( television programmes such as See Hear, Switched, Rush and SignPost are often recorded and shared informally in all three countries ) and conferences ( the World Federation of the Deaf Conference – WFD – in Brisbane 1999 saw many British deaf people travelling to Australia ).

Interpreters must have an advanced knowledge of English and BSL and must be able to process information quickly and accurately.

Biocontainment can be classified by the relative danger to the surrounding environment as biological safety levels ( BSL ).

Two years before the expiration of the 15-year period, the BSL split the Lebanese-Syrian currency into two separate currencies that could still be used interchangeably in either state.

Bokaro Power Supply Corporation Private Limited, a joint venture of Damodar Valley Corporation and BSL, will be coming up with a 450 MW power plant.

Mythographer Karl Kerenyi suggested that the consonance might ultimately derive from a deeper, pre-Indo-European language layer: indeed the sign combination ro-ja, which is someone with great power, is attested in Linear A.

The sign is first attested in British, American, Canadian, Mexican and other Spanish American business correspondence in the 1770s, referring to the Spanish American peso, also known as " Spanish dollar " or " piece of eight " in British North America, which provided the model for the currency that the United States later adopted in 1785 and the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics such as the Mexican peso, Peruvian eight-real and Bolivian eight-sol coins.

But the closing aircraft showed no sign of deviating from their original course.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Another optimistic sign, this one from the Labor Department, was the report that the long rise in unemployment compensation payments `` was interrupted for the first time in the week ending Feb. 25 ''.

For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.

If it is decided to make a small shift which may be required from military aid or special assistance funds, in order to carry out the purposes of the Mutual Security Act through this new peaceful program, this will be a hopeful sign to the world.

Directly across from the Gardens I found a bus stop sign for T 4 and rode it down to the Bosphorus, with the sports center on my left just before I reached the water and the entrance to Dolmabahce Palace immediately after that.

Advances in equipment and fabrication techniques give the sign or display manufacturer an extremely wide choice of production techniques, ranging from injection molding for intricate, smaller-size, mass-production signs ( generally 5000 units is the minimum ) to vacuum and pressure forming for larger signs of limited runs.

Also, the light sources are shielded from dirt and weather exposure and cannot obstruct the view of the sign.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

Innumerable motels from Tucson to New York boast swimming pools ( `` swim at your own risk '' is the hospitable sign poised at the brink of most pools ).

Ataxia ( from Greek α-negative prefix +-τάξις = " lack of order "), is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements.

* 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God.

People from the South sign slower than people in the North — even people from northern and southern Indiana have different styles.

Deaf children from deaf families will often " babble " in sign, just as their hearing counterparts babble in speech, making nonsensical hand gestures.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

Pausanias failed to fight for the bodies of the dead, and because he retrieved the bodies under truce ( a sign of defeat ), he was disgraced and banished from Sparta.

Johnson said he would sooner sever his right arm from his body than sign the law, and vetoed it ; and Congress overrode his veto.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

* 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.

The archbishop is legally entitled to sign his name as " Cantuar " ( from the Latin for Canterbury ).

where θ < sub > r, p </ sub > is the angle between r and p measured from r to p ; an important distinction because without it, the sign of the cross product would be meaningless.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

The party gained ground in the 1923 general election but ominously made most of its gains from Conservatives whilst losing ground to Labour – a sign of the party's direction for many years to come.