Sign language

Sign language.

Possible specific studies

topics have been classified according to connections shown on the Wikipedia article, these classifications are not to be taken as authoritative.

w:BANZSL

w:French Sign Language

w:Irish Sign Language
[[w:Austro-Hungarian Sign Language
w:Russian Sign Language (Moldovan, Ukrainian)

w:Scandinavian Sign Language family

w:Icelandic Sign Language

w:German Sign Language

w:Israeli Sign Language

w:Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

w:Kata Kolok in a village in w:Bali
w:Adamorobe Sign Language in w:Ghana
w:Yucatec Maya sign language in w:Mexico
w:Plains Indian Sign Language

w:Australian Aboriginal sign languages

w:Japanese Sign Language family.

Written forms of sign languages

Primate use of sign language

Main article: Great ape language –Primate use of sign language

There have been several notable examples of scientists teaching non-human primates basic signs in order to communicate with humans.^[1] Notable examples are:-

Chimpanzees: Washoe and Loulis
Gorillas: Michael and Koko.

Gestural theory of human language origins

Main article: Origin of language –Gestural theory

The gestural theory states that vocal human language developed from a gestural sign language.^[2] An important question for gestural theory is what caused the shift to vocalization.^[3]

References

↑ Premack & Pemack (1983), Premack (1985), Wittmann (1991).
↑ Hewes (1973), Premack & Premack (1983), Kimura (1993), Newman (2002), Wittmann (1980, 1991)
↑ Kolb & Whishaw (2003)

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External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of American Sign Language.

Note: the articles for specific sign languages (e.g. ASL or BSL) may contain further external links, e.g. for learning those languages.

American Sign Language (ASL) resource site.
A DeafWiki free-content encyclopedia of deaf and hard hearing
Signes du Monde, directory for all online Sign Languages dictionaries (fr) / (en)
List Serv for Sign Language Linguistics
The MUSSLAP Project Multimodal Human Speech and Sign Language Processing for Human-Machine Communication.
Publications of the American Sign Language Linguistics Research Project
Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf-mutes, by Garrick Mallery from Project Gutenberg. A first annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879–1880
Pablo Bonet, J. de (1620) Reduction de las letras y Arte para enseñar á ablar los Mudos, Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BNE).

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