ASL grammar was obscured for much of its history by the practice of glossing it rather than transcribing it ( see Writing systems below ), a practice which conveyed little of its grammar apart from word order.

However, there is no one-to-one correspondence between words in ASL and English, and the inflectional modulation of ASL signs — a dominant part of the grammar — is lost.

American Sign Language ( ASL )-manual language with its own syntax and grammar, used primarily by people who are deaf.

Australasian Signed English was created in the late 1970s to represent English words and grammar, using mostly Auslan signs together with some additional contrived signs, as well as borrowings from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

Within Bilingual-Bicultural models, Cued Speech does not borrow or invent signs from ASL, nor does CS attempt to change ASL syntax or grammar.

Furthermore, regardless of the individual signs used, the grammar used is clearly ISL and not ASL.

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

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.

ASL is perhaps the most widespread of the world's sign languages, though BANZSL is also spoken around the world.

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

A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.

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.

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

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

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.

" However, parents can learn to recognize their baby's approximations of adult ASL signs, just as they will later learn to recognize their approximations of oral language, so teaching an infant ASL is also possible.

ASL has come a long way from its condemned days of banned use to being viewed as a grammatical language, which is the main form of communication in American Deaf culture.

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

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

Other aspects in ASL include the following: stative, inchoative (" to begin to ..."), predisposional (" to tend to ..."), susceptative (" to ... easily "), frequentative (" to ... often "), protractive (" to ... continuously "), incessant (" to ... incessantly "), durative (" to ... for a long time "), iterative (" to ... over and over again "), intensive (" to ... very much "), resultative (" to ... completely "), approximative (" to ... somewhat "), semblitive (" to appear to ..."), increasing (" to ... more and more ").

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.

Primary forest has almost completely disappeared apart from a few areas above 800 m ASL.

For example, there are more than six signs for birthday in ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean the same thing.

The Intersection of African-American English and Black ASL slides.

* ASL Helper Type an English word, links to vocabulary sites.

Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as the predominant oral language, British Sign Language is quite distinct from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

Some of these arose from the signed English educational philosophies of the 1970s and 80s, when a committee looking for signs with direct equivalence to English words found them in ASL and / or in invented English-based signed systems used in North America and introduced them in the classroom.

However, it often modifies ASL handshapes to incorporate the handshape used for the first letter of the English word that the SEE sign represents.

Signing Exact English ( SEE ) is useful to families who use English in the home or who want their child with hearing loss to be able to speak, understand, use, read, and write English ( there is no written form of ASL ).

They further claim that SEE can exist as a practical alternative to ASL without hindering the learning of ASL, because it is easier to learn for native verbal English speakers, such as individuals with partial hearing loss or no hearing impairment.

For the ASL using community, Cued Speech is a unique potential component for learning English as a second language.

This difference typically is attributed to ASL being a distinct language from English, with its own syntax and lexical patterns,

While vocabulary words from American Sign Language are used to train the apes, native users of ASL note that mere knowledge of ASL's vocabulary does not equate to ASL, but more closely reflects Pidgin Signed English which is not a full-fledged language.

The Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada ( AVLIC ) is a professional association which represents interpreters in Canada whose working languages are English and American Sign Language ( ASL ).

Lesser known is " transliteration ," used within sign language interpreting, takes one form of a language and transfer those same words into another form ( ex: spoken English into a signed form of English, Signed Exact English, not ASL ).

Furthermore, each individual speaker has their own style of signing depending on various factors, such as where they went to school, if they were mainstreamed ( see Mainstreaming ( education )), who taught them ASL, at what age they learned ASL, and how active they are in the Deaf Community.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

ASL has many regional and subcultural varieties and accents.

Black ASL evolved out of racial segregation in the United States, especially in the South.

While White and Black children were both instructed in ASL, only Black teachers were permitted to instruct Black deaf children.

As a language of deaf education, ASL has been introduced to numerous countries, where it has often diverged into a separate dialect.

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.

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.

There have been few studies on how frequent classifiers are used in ASL.

For much of its history, ASL was not written.