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.

* American Sign Language is a Foreign Language – a research / argumentative paper for the consideration of ASL to fulfill University foreign language requirements.

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"; a double-guitar / double-drum three-CD set ( with Derek Bailey, Pat Metheny and Bendian ) entitled " The Sign Of 4 "; and two piano / bass / drums trio CDs ( with Laurence Hobgood and Brian Torff ) entitled " Union " and " State Of The Union.

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Sign Language of the Deaf / Langage Gestuel International des Sourds — Contains original IS signs ( many now outdated ) in photograph form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

In: Ahlgren, Inger / Bergman, Brita / Brennan, Mary ( eds ): Perspectives on sign language structure: Papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Sign Language Research.

Slams are friendship books that include a theme of questions, either " Sign if you did / like the following ", " What is your favorite " or other similar questions.

Putting together a new backing band from the remnants of The Revolution, Prince added bassist Levi Seacer, Jr., Boni Boyer on keyboards, and dancer / choreographer Cat Glover to go with new drummer Sheila E. and holdovers Miko Weaver, Doctor Fink, Eric Leeds, Atlanta Bliss, and the Bodyguards ( Jerome, Wally Safford, and Greg Brooks ) for the Sign o ' the Times Tour.

Sign for interchange at southern terminus of Route 21 along southbound U. S. Route 1 / 9 ( Pulaski Skyway ). Route 21 heads north from the Newark Airport Interchange with U. S. Route 1 / 9 and U. S. Route 22 in Newark near the Newark Liberty International Airport on the six-lane, divided McCarter Highway.

Sign marking the beginning of northbound Route 42 on the Black Horse Pike just north of its southern terminus at U. S. Route 322 in New Jersey | US 322 / County Route 536 Spur ( New Jersey ) | CR 536 Spur

Sign on I-81 / I-77 indicating a double wrong-way concurrency near Fort Chiswell, Virginia.

Sign on U. S. Route 45 / Wisconsin Highway 22

In 1976 the National Archives and Records Service in Washington, DC, became the permanent repository of the Project Sign / Grudge / Blue Book records.

The group's third album featured two singles, " No Nose Job " and " Kiss You Back ", the latter of which featured multi-layered choruses and background vocals sung by Boni Boyer, who briefly worked with Digital Underground shortly after her stint with Prince's Sign of the Times / Love Sexy band.

In American Sign Language ( ASL ), for instance, raised eyebrows combined with a slightly forward head tilt indicate that what is being signed is a yes / no question.

* psp, the ISO 639-3 language code for Filipino Sign Language / Philippine Sign Language

This includes most parking offences, such as parking on a footpath / nature strip, double parking, disobeying a No Stopping or No Parking Sign and stopping in a bus zone.

* " From a Texaco Sign ", PopMatters interview ( 11 / 2005 )

Access to direct TTY and Relay Operator communications has allowed the Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick and similar devices to, in many cases, replace the use of standard TTY / TDD machines, and its dominance is clearly illustrated by the evolution of its own sign in American Sign Language, made using both hands to mimic the opening of the rotating screen.

In the United States, Italian is the fourth most taught foreign language after Spanish, French and German, in that order ( the fifth, considering also the American Sign Language ).

One of the commonly held theories about the origin of the dollar sign derives it from the above personal device, which appeared on the Spanish dollar from which the American one was derived-thus, the two vertical lines on the Dollar Sign ultimately represent the Pillars of Hercules.

They are available in 12 different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and British Sign Language ( BSL ).

* Lengua de signos española, Spanish Sign Language

Currently, Nicaraguan Sign Language has the largest library of texts written in any sign language, including three volumes of reading lessons in ISN, Spanish I and II ( two levels of texts, workbooks and primers ), Cuentos Españoles ( a collection of stories in Spanish with ISN glossaries ), a geography text, and many others.

** Unified Childhood / Special Education ( Grades 1-6 )-Concentrations: American Sign Language, Art, English, Family and Child Studies, Global Studies, Mathematics, Science, Spanish

** Unified Childhood / Special Education ( Birth – Grade 2 )-Concentrations: American Sign Language, Art, English, Family and Child Studies, Global Studies, Mathematics, Science, Spanish

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.

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* Sign Language / Spanish Sign Language ( LSE ): Translation & Interpretation / Interlinguistic Mediation

Spanish, French and Mandarin are the only three foreign language courses that are offered, and American Sign Language is offered over the summer.

It is unrelated to the national sign languages of Mexico ( Mexican Sign Language ) and Guatemala ( Guatemalan Sign Language ), as well as to the local spoken Mayan languages and Spanish.