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.

Some of the letters are represented by iconic shapes, such as b, c, d, k, and, in British Sign Language and the BANZSL group of languages, the vowels a, e, i, o, and u, are represented by pointing to the fingertips.

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.

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.

Sign languages are natural languages which have developed in Deaf communities, which can include interpreters and friends and families of deaf people as well as people who are deaf or hard of hearing themselves.

In New Zealand, Maori and New Zealand Sign Language are de jure official languages, while English is a de facto official language.

In contrast, Rachel Rosenstock notes that the vocabulary exhibited in her study of International Sign was largely made up of highly iconic signs common to many sign languages:

People communicating in International Sign tend to make heavy use of role play, as well as a feature common to most sign languages researched to date: an extensive formal system of classifiers.

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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.

New Zealand has three official languages – English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language.

They are available in 12 different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and British Sign Language ( BSL ).

These include the Japanese Sign Language family, Chinese Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, as well as a number of small indigenous sign languages of countries such as Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Many official sign languages are part of the French Sign Language family.

This frequently happens with sign languages, most famously in the case of Nicaraguan Sign Language, where deaf children with no language were placed together and developed a new language.

Sign languages have also developed outside schools, in communities with high incidences of deafness.

Such languages include Kata Kolok in Bali, the Adamorobe Sign Language in Ghana, the Urubú Sign Language in Brazil, several Mayan sign languages, and half a dozen sign languages of the hill tribes in Thailand, such as the Ban Khor Sign Language.

* Culturally Deaf people value the use of natural sign languages that exhibit their own grammatical conventions, such as American Sign Language and British Sign Language, over signed versions of English or other oral languages.

Chinese, Slavic languages, and American Sign Language also exhibit frequent pro-drop features.

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 makes heavy use of geographical direction through absolute orientation.

Sign cutting plotters are in decline in some applications, such as general billboard design, where wide-format inkjet printers that use solvent-based inks are employed to print directly onto a variety of materials.

It is the only system in regular use, used for example to publish college newsletters in American Sign Language, and has been used for captioning of YouTube videos.

The name Gestuno has fallen out of use, and the phrase " International Sign " is now more commonly used in English to identify this sign variety.

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.

His early use of a form of sign language, the combined system, was the first codification of what was to become British Sign Language.

The evolution of the language and its changing level of acceptance means that older users tend to rely on finger spelling while younger ones make use of a wider range of gestures .< ref > Sign Language: The Study of Deaf People and Their Language </ span > J. G. Kyle, B. Woll, G. Pullen, F. Maddix, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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 ...

Sign informing truckers it is illegal to use a Parkway in New York City. In the New York metropolitan area contemporary parkways are predominantly controlled-access highways restricted to non-commercial traffic, excluding trucks and tractor-trailers.

Both chimps could use fragments of American Sign Language to make themselves understood.

The music video for " It's Only Love " made history as the first music video to prominently use American Sign Language.

Access to direct TTY and Relay Operator communications has allowed the Hiptop / T-Mobile Sidekick and similar devices to, in many cases, replace the use of standard TTY / TDD machines, and its dominance is clearly illustrated by the evolution of its own sign in American Sign Language, made using both hands to mimic the opening of the rotating screen.

" Some examples are simpler: the McDonald's " M " arches allegedly make the material promise of endless amounts of identical food from the store, when in " reality " the " M " represents nothing, and the food produced is neither identical nor infinite, as a person would expect from a fast food restaurant .< ref > Joe L. Kincheloe The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power ( 2002 ), a study of McDonald's and its use of signifiers to achieve power in hyperreality.

Erin Ryan and her colleagues performed a 2009 study on the effect of the use of American Sign Language ( ASL ) in Blue's Clues episodes.

Both he and Peter have also demonstrated profiency in the use of American Sign Language.

* Lucy Temerlin ( 1964 – 1987 ), a chimpanzee known for her use of American Sign Language

Of interest beyond science fiction is her 1963 novel Sign of the Labrys, for its overt early use of Wicca elements in fiction.

The Garden's earlier analog dial-type game clock, essentially identical in appearance and function to the one used in the Chicago Stadium until 1976, was removed and replaced by an all-digital-display unit created by the Day Sign Company of Toronto in time for the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs, and remained in use until the Garden's closure.

Sign over the Kennedy Expressway encouraging commuters to use Metra to avoid the common congestion. One feature of the Kennedy Expressway is the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line that lies in the median for about ten miles ( 16 km ) from just south of Addison Street to just east of Mannheim Road.

Every researcher communicated with Washoe by using American Sign Language ( ASL ), minimizing the use of the spoken voice.

While the more popular term is either International Sign or International Signs, it is sometimes referred to as Gestuno, International Sign Language ( ISL ), International Sign Pidgin and International Gesture ( IG ).

American Express charge card customers, for instance, can enroll in the Extended Payment Option ( internally referred to as ExPO ) to be able to pay for purchases over $ 200 over time, or in Sign & Travel to be able to pay for eligible travel-related expenses over time.

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language may be descended from a hypothesized sign language of that area in the 16th century, now referred to as Old Kent Sign Language.

Also in Aragonese, it is usually referred to as O Siñal d ' Aragón, i. e. " The Sign of Aragón ".

SEE1 is occasionally referred to as Morphemic Sign System ( MSS ), and it has also been adapted in Poland into Seeing Essential Polish.

In the same Interview, Rota also referred to what would later become The Company Band EP, Sign Here, Here and Here.

" He describes a community of deaf people using a sign language ( now referred to as Old French Sign Language ).