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 American Sign Language Linguistics Research Project

** 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 ).

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.

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.

In American Sign Language ( ASL ), more lexical items are fingerspelled in casual conversation than in formal or narrative signing.

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.

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 ).

In American Sign language ( ASL ) a grammatical marker denoting “ intensity ” is characterized by a movement pattern with two parts: an initial pause, followed by a quick completion.

: 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.

In 2010, ASL Inside released an American Sign Language ( ASL ) version of Goodnight Moon through Scholastic.

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.

Auslan has also been influenced by Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) and more recently has borrowed signs from American Sign Language ( ASL ).

In more recent times Auslan has seen a significant amount of lexical borrowing from American Sign Language ( ASL ), especially in signs for technical terms.

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 ).

French Sign Language is related and partially ancestral to Dutch Sign Language ( NGT ), German Sign Language ( DGS ), Flemish Sign Language ( VGT ), Belgian-French Sign Language ( LSFB ), Irish Sign Language ( ISL ), American Sign Language ( ASL ), Quebec Sign Language ( LSQ ), and Russian Sign Language ( RSL ).

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.

If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

Another criticism is that universities tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se ; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language ( e. g., the Sokal affair, a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.

ANSI C refers to the family of successive standards published by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) for the C programming language.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

Meanwhile, the British MI6 and the American CIA commenced an operation to ensure that Doctor Zhivago was correctly submitted to the Nobel Committee, which requires that nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature must be submitted in their original language.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American conventions.

In an attempt to overcome the problem of incompatibility between different versions of COBOL, the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) developed a standard form of the language in 1968.

The name " Chicago " is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, translated as " wild onion " or " wild garlic ," from the Miami-Illinois language.

For example, Standard American English, Standard Canadian English, Standard Indian English, Standard Australian English, and Standard Philippine English may all be said to be standard dialects of the English language.

For political reasons, analyzing these varieties as " languages " or " dialects " yields inconsistent results: British and American English, spoken by close political and military allies, are almost universally regarded as dialects of a single language, whereas the standard languages of Serbia and Croatia, which differ from each other to a similar extent as the dialects of English, are being treated by some linguists from the region as distinct languages, largely because the two countries oscillate from being brotherly to being bitter enemies.

The US state of Illinois declared " American " to be the state's official language in 1923, although linguists and politicians throughout much of the rest of the country considered American simply to be a dialect.

" Told in stark and sometimes elegant language through the unemotional eyes of new hero-detectives, these stories were an American phenomenon.

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘ dichotomization ’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘ deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news ’.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) published by the American Psychiatric Association provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.