Sign Languages (Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Sign_Languages)
up Sign LanguagesSites related to Signed languages used in deaf communities. Sign systems used in contact between deaf and hearing people. Signing to hearing children as a language tool. The gestural language used between Native American tribes.EntriesSign Writing http://www.signwriting.org/ Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature. Libras http://www.libras.org.br/ Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level. A Nice Gesture http://jeroenarendsen.nl/ Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology. SignGenius http://www.signgenius.com/ Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language. New Zealand Sign Online http://www.signplanet.net/ Searchable database of images and activities for Auslan, British, American, and New Zealand Sign Languages. Browse by category or learning level, download pre-made worksheets, and play online games. ACERO http://miajava.tripod.com/ Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian. Chinese Sign Language Fact Sheet http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/csl.htm From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English. Asian Sign Languages Bibliography http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Keywords/Asian_sl.html 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. Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Miles/Miles.html 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. International Sign Language http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202&L=slling-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=82 Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list. Ethnologue Language Family Index: Deaf Sign Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008 Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002. Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/BIDCone.html Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee. Sign Language Studies http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLS.html A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000. The Greek Manual Alphabet Page http://www.deafblind.com/greecema.html Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com. Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html Two-volume set available for purchase. Indic Fingerspelling Project http://www.altruists.org/projects/if/ Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India. The Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Language from a Typological Perspective http://sinine.ehi.ee/ehi/oppetool/lopetajad/merilin/ B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities. Deaf Action Front http://www.gebarentaal.be/ Aims to improve the position of Flemish Sign Language and its signers. Information on the web site is given in Dutch, Flemish Sign Language, and English. Myths About Sign Language http://www.top.net.nz/~hugh/Vanity/Personal/LanguageMyths.html Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori. Sign Language Assessment http://www.signlang-assessment.info/ Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing. SubcategoriesAmerican Sign Language Auslan Sites related to Australian Sign Language, or Auslan. Austrian Sign Language Sites related to Austrian Sign Language, or Österreichischen Gebärdensprache (OEGS). British Sign Language British Sign Language (BSL) is the visual language used by profoundly Deaf people in the UK Danish Sign Language Information about Danish Sign Language, or Dansk Tegnsprog. Directories French Sign Language Sites about French Sign Language, or Langue des Signes Française (LSF). German Sign Language Sites about German Sign Language, or Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS). History Interpreting For practicing interpreters who work between signed and spoken languages or codes, generally between deaf/hard-of-hearing, and hearing people. Irish Sign Language Sites about Irish Sign Language (ISL). Italian Sign Language Sites related to Italian Sign Langauge, or Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS). Japanese Sign Language Sites about Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Malaysian Sign Language Sites related to Malaysian Sign Language, or Bahasa Malaysia Isyarat (BMI). Mexican Sign Language Sites about Mexican Sign Language, or Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM). Native American Sign Systems Sites related to the sign systems for intertribal communication used by Native North Americans who spoke mutually unintelligible languages. Nicaraguan Sign Language A new language invented by a group of uneducated deaf Nicaraguan children brought together in the 1980s. Norwegian Sign Language Sites related to Norwegian Sign Language, or Norsk Sign Language (NSL). Russian Sign Language Sites related to Russian Sign Language, or RSL. Signing with Babies For sites related to augmenting language input to include signs in order to elicit earlier language development from Hearing children. Sign Language of Québec Sites related to the Sign Language of Quebec, or Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ). Sign Language of Singapore Sites related to the Sign Language of Singapore. Sign Language of The Netherlands Sites related to the Sign Language of The Netherlands, or Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT). Spanish Sign Language Sites related to Spanish Sign Language, or Lengua de Señas de España (LSE). Swedish Sign Language Sites about Swedish Sign Language, or Svenskt Teckenspråk (ST). Related categoriesCatalan Codi creat perquè puguin comunicar-se les persones sord-mudes. Finnish German Italian Japanese 手話は自然言語に分類されます。このカテゴリでは、手話についての研究や学習に関するサイトを扱います。 Bilingualism Bilingualism is a subtopic within the study of Linguistics (the study of languages and its use). Specifically, it is the study of people who speak two languages. Common phenomena that occur for Deafness Dictionaries Hearing Neigbour categoriesAfro-Asiatic Afro-Asiatic languages are spoken by various communities from a large area in West Africa centered around Lake Chad (Chadic), all the way across North Africa (Berber) into Egypt (Egyptian), Ethiopia, Ainu Ainu, also known as Ainu Itak, is a language isolate spoken by no more than 15 remaining fluent speakers on Hokkaido Island in Japan and Sakhalin Island in Russia. Algic The following Algic Languages tree is based on the information in the Ethnologue. Algic Languages Algonquian Stock Central Family Cree Branch Altaic Arawakan Australian This is the subcategory for languages native to Australia and the Torres Straits Islands. There are approximately 258 known languages in this family, a large percentage of which are endangered or Austro-Asiatic Austronesian The Austronesian language family is one of the most widely, geographically distributed language groups extending from Madagascar in the west, Easter Island in the east, Hawai`i in the north and New Basque Burushaski Burushaski is a language isolate spoken by approximately 60,000 people primarily in Pakistan and parts of India. It is also known as Brushaski, Burushaki, Caddoan Cariban Caucasian Caucasian languages are a group of about forty languages native to the Caucasus region. Spoken in the Northern Caucasia, Transcaucasia and Turkey. Small groups of speakers of Caucasian languages also Chukotko-Kamchatkan Classical Languages Classical languages are generally considered to be those that have an extensive ancient literature. Some authorities also consider that their literary, cultural or Dravidian Elamite An ancient little-known language isolate spoken in SW Persia. Eskimo-Aleutian The following Eskimo-Aleutian Languages tree is based on the information in the Ethnologue. Eskimo-Aleut Languages Aleut Stock Aleut (USA) Eskimo Stock Inuit Family Etruscan Gulf Hokan The following Hokan Languages tree is taken from the Ethnologue. Hokan Languages Esselen-Yuman Stock Yuman Family Cochimí Branch Cochimí (Mexico) Delta-Californian Branch Cocopa (Mexico) Kumiái Indo-European The first systematic theory of the relationships between human languages began when Sir William Jones proposed in 1788 that Greek and Latin, the classical languages of Europe, and Sanskrit, the Iroquoian The following Iroquoian Languages tree is based on the information in the Ethnologue. Iroquoian Languages Iroquoian Stock Northern Iroquoian Family Laurentian (Canada) Five Japanese This category is dedicated to the Japanese language, its complicated written structure of Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana; its numerous dialects, grammar, Jivaroan Korean Languages of Africa Web pages dealing with languages belonging to more than one language family in Africa. Languages of Eurasia Linguistically oriented web pages devoted to languages belonging to more than one language family of Europe and/or Asia. When the languages are restricted to the Middle East (possibly including Languages of the Americas Linguistic material related to languages belonging to more than one native language family of Languages of the Middle East This subcat should be reserved to sites discussing languages belonging to more than one family that are spoken, or used to be spoken, in the Middle East (today's Iran, and all parts of Asia to the Mayan Misumalpan Misumalpan languages is a small family of American Indian languages, spoken mostly in eastern Nicaragua and in some adjacent areas of Central America. The biggest Muskogean Na-Dene Created by terpgrrl 12/25/00 Na-Dene Languages Haida Stock Haida (Canada) Tlingit Stock Tlingit (USA) Nuclear Na-Dene Stock Eyak Family Eyak (USA) Athapaskan Family Apachean Branch Kiowa Apache Niger-Kordofanian The Niger-Kordofanian family of languages is one of several language families spoken in Africa. It has two branches, Niger-Congo and Kordofanian. The Kordofanian languages are spoken primarily in Nilo-Saharan Linguistic material on the Nilo-Sahara language phylum, all of whose member languages are spoken in East-Central Africa. Oto-Manguean Oto-Manguean languages are a large family of Native American languages spoken in Mexico. The family consists of the smaller groups of: Oto-Pamean languages Popolocan languages Mixtecan languages Papuan Anything related to the Papuan (or non-Austronesian) languages. These languages are found primarily ont he island of New Guinea, but also on neighboring islands in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands. Penutian Pidgins and Creoles Pidgins are languages that occur when people from two different languages come into contact and form a simplified hybrid language. If a pidgin language lasts long enough, eventually people are born Pre-Greek Material on the so-far unnamed non-Indo-European language(s) that may have been spoken in Greece and adjacent areas before the arrival of the Greeks. Languages of this Quechumaran For the languages of the Andes: Quechua, Aymara. Salish Web pages dealing with the Salish family, or any one of the languages belonging to it. Languages of this family are spoken, or used to be spoken, in the Pacific Northwest Sino-Tibetan Siouan The following Siouan Languages tree is based on the information in the Ethnologue. Siouan Languages Catawba Stock Catawba (USA) Siouan Proper Stock Central Family Mandan Branch Mandan (USA) Sumerian Sumerian was the first written language of ancient Mesopotamia. Its writing was the Cuneiform script, which came to be used for Tai-Kadai Tupi-Guarani Uralic The members of the Finno-Ugric (or Uralic) language family are: Baltic-Finnic group: Finnish, Estonian, Karelian, Ludic/Ludian, Veps/Vepsian, Ingrian, Livonian and Votic/Votian; Sami (Lapp): a Uto-Aztecan Yukaghir A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (This section is quite beta and buggy, have patience. Thanks)
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