ASL grammar is completely unrelated to that of English.

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.

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 ).

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.

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:

* Shifting: ( logical, i. e. right shifts put zero in the most significant bit ) LSL, LSR, ( arithmetic shifts, i. e. sign-extend the most significant bit ) ASR, ASL, ( Rotates through eXtend and not :) ROXL, ROXR, ROL, ROR

During the days of the ASL, the league was seen as widely popular, and considered to be the second most popular sports league in the United States, only behind Major League Baseball.

This species is generally found below 4, 500 ft ( c. 2, 000 meters ) ASL and most common below 2, 500 ft ( c. 1, 400 meters ).

Even the most basic ASL components were no longer introductory in nature, although Paratrooper masqueraded as such.

When three ASL clubs, most prominently Bethlehem Steel F. C., defied the league and entered the cup anyway, the ASL suspended them.

Though it is most frequently seen in the lowlands up to 3, 300 ft ( 1, 000 m ) ASL or so, it has been encountered as high as 7, 500 ft ( 2, 300 m ) ASL, Richard ; O ' Neill, John Patton & Eckelberry, Don R.

It is described in several books and articles ( most of them only available in Dutch ), as well as on the official website of the ASL BiSL Foundation.

While most forms of ASL and MCE are transcribed using English glosses, LOVE is written using the notation system developed by William Stokoe.

From the beginning the Marksmen regularly recruited Scottish Football League journeymen, sometimes directly from Scottish clubs but also from other ASL teams, most notably Bethlehem Steel.

The runway is the standard gravel strip that is seen in most Canadian Arctic communities and is with the centre above sea leavel ( ASL ).

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.

In the 1960s linguist William Stokoe created the first writing system for a sign language, the so-called Stokoe notation, which he designed specifically for ASL.

Typically, young children will make an ASL sign in the correct location and use the correct hand motion, but may be able only to approximate the hand shape, for example, using one finger instead of three in signing water.

American Sign Language ( ASL ) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign.

Many sign languages, such as ASL, incorporate numerals.

This is overly exact: The ASL sign will work with any downward zigzag motion, and the direction and starting point of the circles is irrelevant.

* Speaking in foreign languages at the table is prohibited ( unless all players and the house dealer are fluent in that language ; ASL and other sign languages are considered foreign but often allowed due to the Americans with Disabilities Act ).

* Displaying the gesture of wicked clown, the westside sign with the left hand and the C sign in ASL with the right, with arms crossed over.

At the time of observation, Washoe showed no signs of having learned the sign, but on a later occasion she reacted to the sight of a toothbrush by spontaneously producing the correct sign, thereby showing that she had in fact previously learned the ASL sign.

A type of linguistic imperialism had been occurring internationally for decades where individuals would introduce ASL to populations of deaf people in other countries, often supplanting already existing local 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.

This school became known as the birthplace of the Deaf community in the U. S., and the different sign systems used there, including MVSL, merged to become American Sign Language or ASL — now one of the largest community languages in the country.

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

Within the United States, proponents of Cued Speech often discuss the system as an alternative to American Sign Language ( ASL ) and similar sign languages, although others note that it can be learned in addition to such languages.

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 ).

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.

Like in vocal languages, developmental trends in ASL shy away from iconicity in favor of arbitrariness.

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 ).

It is based on American Sign Language ( ASL ), but the two are considered different languages.

He says the result is he can communicate easily in American Sign Language ( ASL ), French Sign Language ( LSF ), ISL, and other sign languages.

In addition to SASL and about 12 other sign languages are used in South Africa, American Sign Language ( ASL ) is also popular, although since 2006 the teaching of ASL is officially discouraged.