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.

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

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

The phrase " American Sign Language " in ASL, transcribed in Stokoe notation

The phrase " American Sign Language " in ASL, transcribed in Sutton SignWriting

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

* American Sign Language grammar

* American Sign Language literature

: An introduction to variation in American Sign Language.

* American Sign Language ( ASL ) resource site.

* " What is American Sign Language?

** The Syntactic Organization of American Sign Language: A Synopsis (. pdf )

* 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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ASL is a common initialism for American Sign Language, and may also refer to:

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The American Manual Alphabet which is used in American Sign Language.

Fingerspelling can be one-handed such as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

Whorf taught his seminar on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

Whorf took Sapir's first course at Yale on " American Indian Linguistics ".

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

He was a Lecturer in Anthropology from 1937 through 1938, replacing Sapir, who was gravely ill. Whorf gave graduate level lectures on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

* North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics

Sapir ended up leaving California early to take up a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught Ethnology and American Linguistics.

American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America.

" International Journal of American Linguistics 3: 219-232 ; 4: 181-219

In his Course in General Linguistics, Saussure himself credits the American linguist William Dwight Whitney ( 1827 – 1894 ) with insisting on the arbitrary nature of the sign.

" International Journal of American Linguistics 58.

* Michelson, Truman D. " Notes on Algonquian Language ," International Journal of American Linguistics 1 ( 1917 ): 56-57.

" International Journal of American Linguistics, Memoir 19.

International Journal of American Linguistics, 21, 121 – 137.

" International Journal of American Linguistics.

The project is also organising formal archive research groups at Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, the American Library of Congress, and the American Summer Institute of Linguistics ( and its offices in Dallas ).

* Nancy Bonvillain, professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, is an authority on Native American cultures and languages, and has written over twenty books on language, culture, and gender.

" Salish internal relationships ", International Journal of American Linguistics 16, 157-167.

" Towards greater accuracy in lexicostatistic dating ", International Journal of American Linguistics 21, 121-137.

In American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America ( 1997 ), Lyle Campbell lists several hypotheses for the historical origins of Amerindian languages.

Several linguists and anthropologists have done extensive studies of Lacandon language and culture, including Phillip Baer, a missionary linguist with Summer Institute of Linguistics who lived among the Lacandon for more than 50 years, Roberto Bruce an American linguist who devoted his life to studying Lacandon language and culture, and Christian Rätsch who spent three years living with the Lacandon while studying their spells and incantations.

International Journal of American Linguistics 71. 1, January 2005.

In a talk in 1946, speaking of the development of the American Linguistics Society, he stated the fostering of such a discipline had saved it " from the blight of the odium theologicum and the postulation of schools.

" Beothuk and Algonkian: Evidence Old and New ," International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol.