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

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.

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

* Argentine Sign Language, sign language used in Argentina

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 ).

Languages may even spontaneously develop in environments where people live or grow up together without a common language, for example in the case of creole languages, and the case of spontaneously developed sign languages such as Nicaraguan Sign Language.

* 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 or signing, in communication: communicating via hand gestures, such as in sign language.

* Selangor Sign Language, a sign language used in Malaysia

* Swedish Sign Language, a sign language used in Sweden

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In New Zealand, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language are de jure official languages, while English is a de facto official language.

* Plains Indian Sign Language, an endangered native sign language of North America

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.

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

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.

His early use of a form of sign language, the combined system, was the first codification of what was to become British Sign Language.

As a consequence American sign language today has a 60 % similarity to modern French Sign Language but is almost unintelligible to users of British Sign Language.

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.

: Since 98. 7 % of the DNA in humans and chimps is identical, some scientists ( but not Noam Chomsky ) believed that a chimp raised in a human family, and using ASL ( American Sign Language ), would shed light on the way language is acquired and used by humans.

Since 2004 The Watchtower has been made available monthly in American Sign Language on DVD, and in other sign languages as the publishers consider practical.

Since April 1970 the show has used a new version of " At The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal " by Brass Incorporated.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

Since then, deaf people have a legal entitlement to Sign Language interpreters when communicating with federal authorities, free of charge.

" Since there is little historical evidence, it is presumed that South African Sign Language has a mixture of the Irish influence from the Dominican Irish nuns, and British influence as well as the American influence.

Since then, a Lithuanian Sign Language Dictionary ( based on traditional word to sign principle ) was published in 5 volumes ( including about 3000 signs ), along with some thematic vocabularies and bilingual texts in LGK and Lithuanian ( including Adam's book ).

The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language Linguistics was held on March 1 – 2, 2003, at National Chung Cheng University in Minxiong, Chiayi, Taiwan.

* The Sign Tour EP ( 2003 )

Sign theft was also a factor that led to the renumbering of U. S. Route 666 to U. S. Route 491 in 2003, with a majority of the US 666 signs stolen following the announcement of the renumbering.

In 2003, in a program of hotel redesign, the company brought back a revamped version of the Great Sign that showed up the company's advertising under the slogan " Relax, it's Holiday Inn.

Sign on Stetson Kennedy's residence erected consequent to the 2003 designation of Beluthahatchee as a Literary Landmark, No. 83 in the National Register.

Holby City was praised by campaigners for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People ( RNID ) in October 2003, when an episode which coincided with " Learn To Sign Week " used deaf actors, and featured characters communicating through British Sign Language.

* Give Me A Sign ( 2003 )

Indo-Pakistani Sign Language ( IPSL ) is the predominant sign language in South Asia, used by at least several hundred thousand deaf signers ( 2003 ).

The Seventh Sign is the seventh studio album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on May 9, 1994 through Music for Nations ( Europe ) and Pony Canyon ( Japan ); a remastered edition was reissued in 2003 through SPV GmbH.

* 2003: Mark Elbroch, Mammal Tracks and Sign: A Guide to North American Species

In contrast, Rachel Rosenstock notes that the vocabulary exhibited in her study of International Sign was largely made up of highly iconic signs common to many sign languages:

" 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 ).

" Some examples are simpler: the McDonald's " M " arches allegedly make the material promise of endless amounts of identical food from the store, when in " reality " the " M " represents nothing, and the food produced is neither identical nor infinite, as a person would expect from a fast food restaurant .< ref > Joe L. Kincheloe The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power ( 2002 ), a study of McDonald's and its use of signifiers to achieve power in hyperreality.

( Senghas has never claimed that Nicaraguan Sign Language is unwritable, just that it was often thought as such by those who do not study sign languages.

A recent small-scale study puts fingerspelled words in Auslan conversations at about 10 % of all lexical items, roughly equal to ASL and higher than many other sign languages, such as New Zealand Sign Language.

Started in 1952, it was the second revival of such a study ( the first two of its kind being Projects Sign and Grudge ).

Erin Ryan and her colleagues performed a 2009 study on the effect of the use of American Sign Language ( ASL ) in Blue's Clues episodes.

Support for a broad range of speech processing areas was furthered by a recent study done at University of Rochester in which American Sign Language native speakers were subject to MRIs while interpreting sentences that identified a relationship using either syntax ( relationship is determined by the word order ) or inflection ( relationship is determined by physical motion of " moving hands through space or signing on one side of the body ").

A follow-up study by the Air Materiel Command intelligence and engineering departments at Wright Field Ohio led to the formation the U. S. Air Force's Project Sign at the end of 1947, the first official U. S. military UFO study.

GPC serves metro Atlanta with multiple campus locations and offers 40 + programs of study, including Nursing, Business Administration, Education, Dental Hygiene, Criminal Justice and Sign Language Interpreting.

The Air Force had recently commissioned the Battelle Memorial Institute to scientifically study all of the UFO reports collected by Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book.

A first preliminary study on evidentiality in sign language has been conducted by Laura Mazzoni on LIS ( Italian Sign Language ).

Academic program clubs sponsor activities related to the major field of study such as electrical engineering, political science or Sign Language interpretation.

# Sign Here-Murphy's Law says you need insurance from Lloyd's of London, so pack your bags to study international law and protect yourself from piracy by calculating the probability.

Sign language is mentioned in the South African constitution, and the South African Schools Act permits the study of sign language in lieu of an official language studied at school.

Project Sign was an official U. S. government study of unidentified flying objects ( UFOs ) undertaken by the United States Air Force and active for most of 1948.