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- American_Sign_Language abstract "American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (FSL). It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use propagated widely via schools for the deaf and deaf community organizations. Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken, though reliable estimates for American ASL users range from 250,000 to 500,000 persons, including a number of children of deaf adults. ASL users face stigma due to beliefs in the superiority of spoken language to signed language, compounded by the fact that ASL is often glossed in English due to the lack of a standard writing system.ASL signs have a number of phonemic components, including movement of the face and torso as well as the hands. ASL is not a form of pantomime, but iconicity does play a larger role in ASL than in spoken languages. English loan words are often borrowed through fingerspelling, although ASL grammar is unrelated to that of English. ASL has verbal agreement and aspectual marking, and has a productive system of forming agglutinative classifiers. Many linguists believe ASL to be a subject-verb-object (SVO) language, but there are several alternative proposals to account for ASL word order.".
- American_Sign_Language iso6393Code "ase".
- American_Sign_Language languageFamily French_Sign_Language_family.
- American_Sign_Language spokenIn Central_Africa.
- American_Sign_Language spokenIn North_America.
- American_Sign_Language spokenIn West_Africa.
- American_Sign_Language thumbnail ASL_map_(world).png?width=300.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink browser.htm.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink asllrp.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink www.handspeak.com.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink www.lifeprint.com.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink american-sign-language.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink asl.aspx.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageExternalLink www.spreadthesign.com.
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageID "1201".
- American_Sign_Language wikiPageRevisionID "605291511".
- American_Sign_Language align "right".
- American_Sign_Language alt "ASL sign for the number 2".
- American_Sign_Language alt "ASL sign for the number 3".
- American_Sign_Language caption "About – Atlantic Variation".
- American_Sign_Language caption "About – General sign".
- American_Sign_Language caption "About – Ontario Variation".
- American_Sign_Language caption "Phonemic handshape /2/".
- American_Sign_Language caption "Phonemic handshape /3/".
- American_Sign_Language caption "[+ closed thumb]".
- American_Sign_Language caption "[− closed thumb]".
- American_Sign_Language date "1972".
- American_Sign_Language dia Bolivian_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language dia Francophone_African_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language dia Ghanaian_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language dia Nigerian_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language dia "Black American Sign Language".
- American_Sign_Language direction "vertical".
- American_Sign_Language fam "French Sign–based".
- American_Sign_Language familycolor "sign".
- American_Sign_Language hasPhotoCollection American_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language header "Distinctive features in ASL".
- American_Sign_Language header "Variants of ABOUT in Canadian ASL".
- American_Sign_Language image "3".
- American_Sign_Language image "About- Atlantic Variation.ogv".
- American_Sign_Language image "About- General sign.ogv".
- American_Sign_Language image "About- Ontario Variation.ogv".
- American_Sign_Language image "V@InForward.jpg".
- American_Sign_Language iso "ase".
- American_Sign_Language map "ASL map .png".
- American_Sign_Language name "American Sign Language".
- American_Sign_Language nativename "250".
- American_Sign_Language region Central_Africa.
- American_Sign_Language region North_America.
- American_Sign_Language region West_Africa.
- American_Sign_Language sign "Clerc".
- American_Sign_Language source "1852".
- American_Sign_Language speakers "250000".
- American_Sign_Language text "I see, however, and I say it with regret, that any efforts that we have made or may still be making, to do better than, we have inadvertently fallen somewhat back of Abbé de l’Épée. Some of us have learned and still learn signs from uneducated pupils, instead of learning them from well instructed and experienced teachers.".
- American_Sign_Language text "Just as there are accents in speech, there are regional accents in sign. People from the South sign slower than people in the North—even people from northern and southern Indiana have different styles.".
- American_Sign_Language width "150".
- American_Sign_Language wordnet_type synset-language-noun-1.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:American_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:Deaf_culture_in_the_United_States.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:Languages_of_Canada.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- American_Sign_Language subject Category:Subject–verb–object_languages.
- American_Sign_Language type Abstraction100002137.
- American_Sign_Language type Communication100033020.
- American_Sign_Language type Language106282651.
- American_Sign_Language type LanguagesOfCanada.
- American_Sign_Language type LanguagesOfTheUnitedStates.
- American_Sign_Language type Language.
- American_Sign_Language type Language.
- American_Sign_Language type Language.
- American_Sign_Language type InformationEntity.
- American_Sign_Language comment "American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (FSL).".
- American_Sign_Language label "American Sign Language".
- American_Sign_Language label "American Sign Language".
- American_Sign_Language label "Amerikaanse Gebarentaal".
- American_Sign_Language label "Langue des signes américaine".
- American_Sign_Language label "Lengua de signos americana".
- American_Sign_Language label "Lingua dei segni americana".
- American_Sign_Language label "Língua de sinais americana".
- American_Sign_Language label "Амслен".
- American_Sign_Language label "アメリカ手話".
- American_Sign_Language label "美國手語".
- American_Sign_Language sameAs American_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Lengua_de_signos_americana.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Amerikar_keinu_hizkuntza.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Langue_des_signes_américaine.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Lingua_dei_segni_americana.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs アメリカ手話.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs 미국_수화.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Amerikaanse_Gebarentaal.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Língua_de_sinais_americana.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs m.0my5.
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- American_Sign_Language sameAs Q14759.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs Q14759.
- American_Sign_Language sameAs American_Sign_Language.
- American_Sign_Language wasDerivedFrom American_Sign_Language?oldid=605291511.
- American_Sign_Language depiction ASL_map_(world).png.
- American_Sign_Language isPrimaryTopicOf American_Sign_Language.