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

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.

* SignWriting, a system of writing sign languages also developed by Valerie Sutton

Several are known to have occurred in Indo-European languages, including the presumed original Proto-Indo-European words for bear (* rkso ), wolf (* wlk < sup > w </ sup > o ), and deer ( originally, hart — although the word hart remained commonplace in parts of England until the 20th century as is witnessed by the widespread use of the pub sign The White Hart ).

These manual alphabets ( also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets ), have often been used in deaf education, and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a number of sign languages around the world.

Fingerspelling has been introduced into certain sign languages by educators, and as such has some structural properties that are unlike the visually motivated and multi-layered signs that are typical in deaf sign languages.

Fingerspelling is used in different sign languages and registers for different purposes.

Fingerspelling does not seem to be used much in the sign languages of Eastern Europe, except in schools, The above is from Fernando Gallego's retablo panels, 1480-1488, in Ciudad Rodrigo.

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.

") The assignment operator, represented as an equals sign ( INTERCAL's " half mesh ") in many other programming languages, is in INTERCAL a left-arrow, < code ><-</ code >, referred to as " gets " and made up of an " angle " and a " worm ".

Oral and sign languages contain a phonological system that governs how symbols are used to form sequences known as words or morphemes, and a syntactic system that governs how words and morphemes are combined to form phrases and utterances.

Languages may even spontaneously develop in environments where people live or grow up together without a common language, for example in the case of creole languages, and the case of spontaneously developed sign languages such as Nicaraguan Sign Language.

In addition, a number of sign languages have developed in isolation and appear to have no relatives at all.

A central publication on this topic is the recent volume edited by Dixon and Aikhenvald ( 2007 ), examining the mismatch between prosodic-phonological and grammatical definitions of " word " in various Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Caucasian, Eskimo, Indo-European, Native North American, West African, and sign languages.

Many sign languages, such as ASL, incorporate numerals.

At a young age his mother paid a lot of attention to his education, as a result of this Osman II was a known poet and had mastered many languages, including Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Italian, and the court sign language.

Features overlap each other in time, as do suprasegmental phonemes in oral language and many phonemes in sign languages.

Phonetics ( pronounced, from the, phōnē, ' sound, voice ') is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or — in the case of sign languages — the equivalent aspects of sign.

The importance of the sign industry to the plastics industry, however, is not in terms of volume alone.

The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

These characters were, however, included later with ISO / IEC 8859-15, which also introduced the new euro sign character €.

Nazarbayev, however, continued to support him, persistently urging other republic leaders to sign the revised Union Treaty, which Gorbachev had put forward in a last attempt to hold the Soviet Union together.

Charles, however guaranteed Strafford that he would not sign the attainder, without which the bill could not be passed.

Strauss however sees this also as a sign of major innovation in Machiavelli, because classical materialists did not share the Socratic regard for political life, while Machiavelli clearly did.

Ironically, however, it is sometimes easier to get a receiving party to sign a simple agreement that is shorter, less complex and does not contain safety provisions protecting the receiver.

* 2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution which, however, failed to be ratified by all signatory countries and therefore never entered into force.

Julius shaved his beard again before his death, and his immediate successors were clean-shaven ; however, Pope Clement VII again adopted the beard as a sign of mourning after the 1527 sack of Rome.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

The number of charges is specified after the sign ( except if there is one only ); however, it is also possible write the sign as many times as the ion has charges: instead of " Ti + 4 ", one can also write " Ti ++++" ( Titanium IV, Ti < sup > 4 +</ sup >).

Unlike its namesakes, however, this AFL was able to command sufficient financial resources to survive ; one factor in this was becoming the first league to sign a television contract — previously, individual franchises had signed agreements with networks to televise games.

Under the full orthogonal group, however, they do not quite transform well, but only " up to a sign ".

Since, however, in commonly used modes, an individual tengwa was equivalent to a consonant, the term tengwar in popular use became equivalent to " consonant sign ", and the vowel signs were known as ómatehtar.

The subscription controversy was then agitating the university, and Paley published an anonymous defence of a pamphlet in which the Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Carlisle Edmund Law had advocated the retrenchment and simplification of the Thirty-nine Articles ; he did not, however, sign the petition ( called the " Feathers Tavern " petition, from being drawn up at a meeting at the Feathers Tavern ) for a relaxation of the terms of subscription.

The AD / BC notation does not use a year zero ; however, astronomical year numbering does use a minus sign, so " 2 BC " is equal to " year-1 ".

Four days later however Vlaar told the public that he would eventually be joining Villa, as he had agreed personal terms and would sign for Villa subject to him passing a medical.

The construction management position does not necessarily require a PE license ; however possessing one does make the individual more marketable, as the PE license allows the individual to sign off on temporary structure designs.

In 230, however, the first sign of the deterioration of Sun Quan's reign occurred.

The Namaqua's resistance proved to be unsuccessful, however, and in 1894 Witbooi was forced to sign a " protection treaty " with the Germans.

Both signs may have true vertical lines ; however, they are compulsory in the sharp sign, but optional in the number sign (#) depending on typeface or handwriting style.

This concept however is contradicted in a number of episodes, where Backstep personnel appear to become aware of the Backstep only when Frank calls in as ' Conundrum ', his backstepping call sign.

Often, the finished sign or display incorporates several types of plastics and two or more fabricating techniques.

One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

These take several different forms, depending on the choice of formalism and sign convention used.

Nonetheless, Samori was forced to sign several treaties ceding territory to the French between 1886 and 1889.

Actually, writing out the expanded source code can be done from any section or subsection ( i. e. a piece of code designated as "< code ><< name of the chunk >>=</ code >", with the equal sign ), so one literate program file can contain several files with machine source code.

Then, the part to the left of the at sign is designed to be unique within that machine ; a good way to do this is to append several constantly changing strings that programs have access to.

Carducci suggested they sign with the label, and the Meat Puppets released their first album Meat Puppets in 1982, which among several new originals and a pair of heavily skewed Doc Watson and Bob Nolan covers, featured the songs " The Gold Mine " and " Melons Rising ", two tunes Derrick and Cris originally had written and performed as Atomic Bomb Club previously.

Others concluded that a search for life on Earth at kilometer resolution, using several thousand photographs, did not reveal a sign of life on the vast majority of these photographs ; thus, based on the 22 photographs taken by Mariner 4, one could not conclude there was no intelligent life on Mars.

Many of the 80, 000 people who filled the Olympic Stadium for West Germany's football match with Hungary carried noisemakers and waved flags, but when several spectators unfurled a banner reading “ 17 dead, already forgotten ?” security officers removed the sign and expelled those responsible from the grounds.

The peace sign, one of peace symbols | several symbols used to represent peace

By the end of the following winter ball season, Brooklyn was one of several major league clubs seeking to sign Clemente.

In these scripts, unlike in pure syllabaries, syllables starting with the same consonant are expressed with characters that are based on the same sign, and generally each character representing a syllable consists of several elements which designate the individual sounds of that syllable.

The structure of the sestina is able to produce several effects ; it can be a sign of duress in itself, or serve to echo an existing emotion within the subject matter that it orders.

He has also criticized in several works ( A theory of semiotics, La struttura assente, Le signe, La production de signes ) the " iconism " or " iconic signs " ( taken from Peirce's most famous triadic relation, based on indexes, icons, and symbols ), to which he purposes four modes of sign production: recognition, ostension, replica, and invention.

* June 6 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces ; he is forced to sign a 3-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.

In any of several studies that treat the use of signs-for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, and semiotics-the extension of a concept, idea, or sign consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its comprehension or intension, which consists very roughly of the ideas, properties, or corresponding signs that are implied or suggested by the concept in question.

Under the interdict, Church sacraments including marriage and consecrated burial are probably stopped, but there is no sign of the popular discontent which interdicts are intended to produce over the next several years.

The process can be repeated many times ; typically several hundred impressions ( copies ) could be printed before the plate shows much sign of wear.

The process can be repeated many times ; typically several hundred impressions ( copies ) could be printed before the printing plate shows much sign of wear, except when drypoint, which gives much shallower lines, is used.

Deaf Studies courses with specific streams for sign language interpreting exist at several British universities.

When John was forced to sign Magna Carta, Llywelyn was rewarded with several favourable provisions relating to Wales, including the release of his son Gruffydd who had been a hostage since 1211.

During the Second World War, Germany asked Finland several times to sign the pact, but always the Finnish government declined the offer.

It is probable that about this time Offa annexed the kingdom of Sussex, as several persons, Osmund, Ælfwald and Oslac, who had previously used the royal title, now sign with that of dux.

These usually include one page as a " sign in ", several pages of questions, and then a " sign out " or " shout out " page at the end.