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.

BSL is also distinct from Irish Sign Language ( ISL ) ( ISG in the ISO system ) which is more closely related to French Sign Language ( LSF ) and ASL.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

Two years before the expiration of the 15-year period, the BSL split the Lebanese-Syrian currency into two separate currencies that could still be used interchangeably in either state.

BSL, Auslan and NZSL all have their roots in a deaf sign language used in Britain during the 19th century.

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

The Claremont Institute was a Protestant institution and given that Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom, it is no surprise that BSL ( or some version of signed English based in BSL ) was used for teaching and learning ( Pollard 2006 ).

BSL signs are used in English grammar.

The language contact post secondary education between Australian ISL users and ' Australian BSL ' users accounts for some of the dialectal differences we see between modern BSL and Auslan.

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 ).

A large number of jurisdictions have enacted breed-specific legislation ( BSL ) in response to a number of well-publicized incidents involving pit bull-type dogs, and some government organizations such as the United States Army and Marine Corps have taken administrative action as well.

ISL was brought by Catholic missionaries to Australia and South Africa, and to Scotland and England, with remnants of ISL still visible in some variants of BSL, especially in Glasgow, and with some elderly Auslan Catholics still using ISL today.

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.

The Let's Sign BSL and fingerspelling graphics are being developed for use in education by deaf educators and tutors and include many of the regional signs referred to above ...

After completing an approved course and once the interpreter has been assessed for the NVQ 4 in BSL Interpreting ( or equivalent ), Trainees can apply to become a " Member of the Register of Sign Language Interpreters " ( MRSLI ).

Laboratories and other facilities are categorized as BSL ( Biosafety Level ) 1-4 or as P1 through P4 for short ( Pathogen or Protection Level ).

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.

* Golden Peacock Award for Combating Climate Change – 2008 for BSP, Occupational Health and Safety-2008 for BSL

As the political status of Lebanon evolved, the Banque de Syrie, which was to act as the official bank for Lebanon and Syria, was renamed the Banque de Syrie et du Grand-Liban ( BSL ).

The BSL issued the Lebanese-Syrian currency for 15 years, starting in 1924.

Every Scottish qualification-from the Access level for those with learning difficulties to a Doctorate and including vocational as well as ESOL and BSL qualifications-is allocated A Levels and credit value within this framework, which all partners have agreed to recognise.

It was developed by IBM in the late 1960s, under the name Basic Systems Language ( BSL ), as a replacement for assembly language on internal software projects ; it included support for inline assembly and explicit control over register usage.

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.

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.

There continues to be language contact between BSL, Auslan and NZSL through migration ( deaf people and interpreters ), the media ( television programmes such as See Hear, Switched, Rush and SignPost are often recorded and shared informally in all three countries ) and conferences ( the World Federation of the Deaf Conference – WFD – in Brisbane 1999 saw many British deaf people travelling to Australia ).

Many British television channels broadcast programmes with in-vision signing, using BSL, as well as specially made programmes aimed mainly at deaf people such as the BBC's See Hear and Channel 4's VEE-TV.

It uses more lip-patterns in conjunction with hand and facial movement to cue signs than BSL, reflecting New Zealand's history of oralist education of deaf people.

It uses more lip-patterns in conjunction with hand and facial movement to cue signs than BSL, reflecting New Zealand's history of oralist education of deaf people.

These activities include British Sign Language ( BSL ) tuition, deaf awareness programmes, children's activity days, parent support groups, drama and poetry workshops and various fund-raising events.

She was involved in setting up and then teaching on the British Sign Language Tutor Training Course-the first university course for training deaf people to become BSL tutors.

In his September 2004 interview with SIGN MATTERS, he commented: " The word ‘ Deaf ’ has several different perceptions out there ranging from those deaf through old age to Deaf BSL users.