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 ).

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.

Like many other sign languages, BSL phonology is defined by elements such as hand shape, orientation, location, and motion.

Further information will be available after the completion of the BSL corpus is completed and allows for comparison with the Auslan corpus and the Sociolinguistic Variation in New Zealand Sign Language project.

The sign language used in Sri Lanka is also closely related to BSL despite the oral language not being English, demonstrating the distance between sign languages and spoken ones.

BSL is used in some educational establishments, but is not always the policy for deaf children in some local authority areas.

Once registered with an approved course and having demonstrated their BSL is NVQ 4 standard interpreters are then eligible for the " Trainee Interpreter " title and can work in a wider variety of settings.

Its Australian Securities Exchange code is BSL.

A model being currently created at the University of Reading is one of the few to utilise two hands, attempt signs that involve motion, and make it relevant to British Sign Language ( BSL ).

Samus is unknowingly infected by the virus, and proceeds to return to the BSL station, when she suddenly loses consciousness and is ejected from her ship before it crashes into a nearby asteroid belt.

Her infected Power Suit is sent to the BSL station for examination, although parts of the suit were too integrated with her body to safely remove during surgery, forming a partially armored suit known as the Fusion Suit.

Samus is certain that the Federation underestimates the destructive power of the X Parasites, and takes it upon herself to destroy the BSL station by setting it on a collision course with SR388.

Auslan is related to British Sign Language ( BSL ); the three have descended from the same parent language, and together comprise the BANZSL language family.

# Bokaro Steel Plant ( BSL ) in Jharkhand ( 1965 ) set up with Soviet collaboration ( The Plant is hailed as the country ’ s first Swadeshi steel plant, built with maximum indigenous content in terms of equipment, material and know-how )

The programme is presented entirely in BSL and is broadcast with voice-over and subtitles in English throughout the programme.

His corpse turns up again in Metroid Fusion on the BSL station, where it is infected with an X parasite, allowing it to gain the ability to transform into Ridley.

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.

Many thousands of people who are not deaf also use BSL, as hearing relatives of deaf people, sign language interpreters or as a result of other contact with the British deaf community.

Interpreters may apply for the status of " Junior Trainee Interpreter " after completing the Level III / NVQ 3 BSL assessment ( they must also be enrolled on a recognised interpreter training programme, have completed some initial training and have professional indemnity insurance to register ).

Television House also acts as a base for ITV SignPost, Britain's biggest supplier of British Sign Language ( BSL ) services for television, video, CD-ROM, DVD, film and the Internet.

The Broad Street Line ( BSL ) ( also known as the Broad Street Subway ( BSS ) or Orange Line ) is a rapid transit line operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority that runs from Fern Rock Transportation Center in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia.

According to Wittmann ( 1991 ), Swedish Sign Language also descends from BSL.

It is also used in Northern Ireland, though British Sign Language ( BSL ) is also used there.

In Another move ArcelorMittal also taking an initiative to utilise the spare land of SAIL by establishing a new steel plant of 3-4 ml / ton capacity of 50: 50 JV with PSU in BSL premises itself by the investment of $ 2. 7 billion.

There are also services to Naantali in mainland Finland operated by Finnlink, and to Paldiski in Estonia operated by Tallink and Baltic Scandinavian Lines, although only the Mariehamn route is open to pedestrians: the Naantali and BSL Paldiski routes require a vehicle.

A number of practitioners see Northern Ireland Sign Language as a distinct and separate language from both BSL and ISL though " many ' Anglo-Irish ' Northern Irish signers argue against the use of the acronym NISL and believe that while their variety is distinct, it is still a part of British Sign Language.

The sign languages used in Australia and New Zealand, Auslan and New Zealand Sign Language, respectively, evolved largely from 19th century BSL, and all retain the same manual alphabet and grammar and possess similar lexicons.

Auslan, BSL and NZSL have 82 % of signs identical ( using concepts from a Swadesh list ).

Course entry requirements vary from no previous knowledge of BSL to NVQ level 6 BSL ( or equivalent ).

For example, in the United Kingdom, Makaton uses signs from British Sign Language ( BSL ).

In 2009 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from BSL, Business School Lausanne.

Bounty hunter Samus Aran, the protagonist, explores the surface of the planet SR388 with a survey crew from Biologic Space Laboratories ( BSL ).

These two dialects may have roots in older dialectic differences from the United Kingdom, brought over by Deaf immigrants who founded the first schools for the deaf in Australia — English varieties ( from London ) in Melbourne and Scottish ones ( from Edinburgh ) in Sydney, although the relationship between lexical variation in the UK and Australia appears much more complicated than this ( some Auslan signs appear similar to signs used in the Newcastle variety of BSL, for example ).

SAIL has incorporated another joint venture company with M / s JaiPrakash Associates Ltd to set up a 2. 1 MT cement plant at Bokaro utilizing slag from BSL.

* Honoris Causa from BSL, Business School Lausanne in 2011.

* BSL ( sign attested from 1644 may not be BSL )

The Irish Deaf Society says that ISL " arose from within deaf communities ", " was developed by deaf people themselves " and " has been in existence for hundreds of years ", but according to Ethnologue the language arose in its current form in 1846 and 1849 in the girls ' and boys ' schools respectively, BSL having been introduced in Dublin in 1816.

In March 2009, he signed with Bnei HaSharon from the Israeli BSL for the remainder of the season.

This introduced the London and Edinburgh dialects of BSL to Melbourne and Sydney respectively and Irish Sign Language to Sydney in Roman Catholic schools for the deaf.

BSL users campaigned to have BSL recognised on a similar level to Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, and Irish.

NISL is described as being related to Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) at the syntactic level while the lexicon is based on British Sign Language ( BSL ) and American Sign Language ( ASL ).