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.

In sign languages, however, several channels operate simultaneously — hand shape, often with the two hands operating independently, hand location, hand motion, facial expression, mouthing — making an alphabetic script more complicated than just stringing letters together in the order sounds are produced.

* 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.

At present, both the familiar cast acrylic and the newer extruded sheets are being used by sign manufacturers, with extruded now representing an estimated 10% of the total.

After a short time, both George and Donald joined the class with me so they wouldn't feel lonely, and we used to hang a sign on the door of the Brush-off reading out to work.

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.

In some countries, such as Zimbabwe, it is widely used alongside a national sign language.

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.

* Argentine Sign Language, sign language used in Argentina

Although he used the usual French terms " avant J .- C ." ( before Jesus Christ ) and " après J .- C ." ( after Jesus Christ ) to label years elsewhere in his book, the Byzantine historian Venance Grumel used negative years ( identified by a minus sign, −) to label BC years and unsigned positive years to label AD years in a table, possibly to save space, without a year 0 between them.

In a typical case of running amok, a male who has shown no previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence will acquire a weapon, traditionally a sword or dagger, but presently a variety of weapons are used, and in a sudden frenzy, will attempt to kill or seriously injure anyone he encounters.

Special bit patterns are sometimes used for a sign or for other indications ( e. g., error or overflow ).

The Hankel functions are used to express outward-and inward-propagating cylindrical wave solutions of the cylindrical wave equation, respectively ( or vice versa, depending on the sign convention for the frequency ).

* Traffic cone, a brightly colored cone-shaped plastic object commonly used as a temporary traffic barrier or warning sign

The international distinctive sign of civil defence, defined by the rules of International Humanitarian Law and to be used as a protective sign

These digits are often used with a decimal separator which indicates the start of a fractional part, and with a symbol such as the plus sign + ( for positive ) or minus sign − ( for negative ) adjacent to the numeral to indicate whether it is greater or less than zero, respectively.

Thus it works as a separation sign and not as an indication for an alternative version of the i. Diacritics can be used for emphasis ( érg koud for very cold ) or for disambiguation between a number of words that are spelled the same when context doesn't indicate the correct meaning ( één appel

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

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

Some signs, such as the sign commonly used for the letter C, may be one-handed.

It may used be to represent words from an oral language which have no sign equivalent, or for emphasis, clarification, or when teaching or learning a sign language.

A tourism sign post Yalgoo, Western Australia

The MCC asked Harold Larwood to sign an apology to them for his bowling in Australia, making his selection for England again conditional upon it.

* April 1971-Singapore, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand sign the Five Power Defence Arrangements.

* 23 August 2005-Singapore and Australia sign a memorandum of agreement to allow Singapore Armed Forces to train on the Shoalwater Bay Training Area till 2009.

* 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

* September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

Roadside sign at the southern end of the Canning Stock Route, near Wiluna, Western Australia | Wiluna

A road sign in Cairns, Queensland, Australia

95. 5 K-Rock ( call sign: 3CAT ) is a commercial FM radio station based in Geelong, Australia.

Australia had been reluctant to sign the treaty out of concerns regarding how it would affect Australia's obligation under other treaty arrangements including ANZUS.

A typical 60 km / h speed limit sign used in Australia

On 10 November 2006, Australian state and territory attorney-generals met in Fremantle to sign the Fremantle Declaration, a restatement and affirmation of legal and human rights principles in Australia.

Around the same time, Gudinksi was convinced to sign expatriate New Zealand band Split Enz, who had recently relocated to Australia.

Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 6, 500 deaf people.

Concerned about the worsening diplomatic relations between England and Australia as a result of this, the MCC hypocritically reprimanded Larwood and asked him to sign a Letter of Apology to the Australian Cricket Board & Players.

" During a lecture in Australia, Ross suggested that the reason for the failure was Arafat's unwillingness to sign a final deal with Israel that would close the door on any of the Palestinians ' maximum demands, particularly the right of return.

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plaçage – plethysmography – plural marriage – plushophile – plushophilia – PnP – podophilia – point of no return – polyamory – polyandry – polyandry in Tibet – polycystic ovary syndrome – polyfidelity – polygamy – polygynandry – polygyny – polyiterophilia – polymastia – polymorphous perverse – polymorphous perversity – polythelia – pomosexual – pompoir – pony boots ( fetish footwear ) – ponyboy – ponygirl – poppers – popping her cherry – population control – Pornographic film actor – pornai – pornographic magazine – pornographic movie – pornographic novel – pornography – pornography in Europe – pornography in Japan – pornography in the United States – post-coital tristesse – post-natal depression – post-orgasmic pain – post-partum sex taboo – posterior commissure of labia – posthumous marriage – postmasturbatory urine – postpartum examination – potency – pozcum – pre-eclampsia – pre-ejaculate – pre-ejaculatory fluid – pre-marital sex – pre-menstrual tension – pre-op transsexual – 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A Justice of the Peace in Australia is typically someone of good stature in the community who is authorised to witness and sign statutory declarations and affidavits and to certify copies of original documents.

A Justice of the Peace ( JP ) in South Australia is typically someone of good stature in the community who is authorised to witness and sign statutory declarations, affidavits, waiver rights, search warrants, drug warrants, divorce documents, and to certify copies of original documents and to witness the signing of power of attorney and guardianship documents, providing the JP is satisfied with the capability of the signatory.

A solar powered School Zone sign used in New South Wales, Australia.

An Australia n school zone sign, covered during school holidays, to denote the use of normal speeds.

Since then, the wearing of the pellegrina shoulder cape with the cassock has been a sign of a Catholic priest in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

It has also established Chinese schools abroad, such as in Australia and the US, which teach not only Chinese and sign language, but also the ways of compassion and community service.

Shortly after his arrival in Australia, it was reported in the British media that Fowler would be making a swift return to his homeland and sign for League One side Tranmere Rovers, who had just appointed Fowler's former Liverpool team mate John Barnes as manager.