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 Health: Conditions and Diseases: Communication Disorders: Hearing: Deafness
Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Bilingualism
Animated fingerspelling software
Downloadable freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, JSL and others.
Asian Sign Languages Bibliography
Links to bibliographic entries for thirteen Asian Sign Languages: Australasian, Chinese (CSL), Hong Kong (HKSL), Indian (INS), Indonesian, Japanese (JSL), Korean (KVK), Malaysian (BMT), Nepalese (NSP), Philippine (PSP), Sri Lankan (SQS), Taiwanese (TSS) and Thai (TSQ). Full-text articles not included.
Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary
Two-volume set available for purchase.
Chilean Sign Language
Article calling for the legitimization of la Lenguaje (sic) de Señas Chilena. In Spanish.
Chinese Sign Language Fact Sheet
From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.
Deaf Web Ring
Web ring for the deaf and hearing impaired related sites. Details of how to join the web ring.
Deaf World Web Sign Languages Index
Down Syndrome and Sign Language
Article that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?
Ethnologue Language Family Index: Deaf Sign Language
Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.
Fingerspelling Database
Searchable collection of manual alphabet handshapes for several sign languages.
The Greek Manual Alphabet Page
Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.
Hong Kong Sign Language
Dictionary of signs; search or browse through an English index. Simple line drawings. In English and Chinese.
International Sign Language
Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list.
Maritime Sign Language Project Report
Study of a minority sign language in Eastern Canada. From the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, May 1999.
Myths About Sign Language
Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about a non-universal set of languages. Links to an essay on New Zealand Sign Language, and Early Monks' signs.
Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language
Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
The Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Language from a Typological Perspective
B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History
Historical linguistics research by M. Miles. Treats use of sign language from antquity to the present in India, Aghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran and Sri Lanka.
Sign Language Assessment
Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
Sign Writing
Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
Taiwanese Sign Language
Taipei Ph.D. Student Rung-Huei Liang introduces some gestures of TSL. Links to his gesture-recognition research.
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