List of sign languages#Yiddish

There are at least 25 sign languages in Africa, according to researcher Nobutaka Kamei.Kamei, Nobutaka. The Birth of Langue des Signes Franco-Africaine: Creole ASL in West and Central French-speaking Africa, paper presented at Languages and Education in Africa (LEA), University of Oslo, June 19–22, 2006.Kamei, Nobutaka (2004). The Sign Languages of Africa, "Journal of African Studies" (Japan Association for African Studies) Vol. 64, March, 2004. [NOTE: Kamei lists 23 African sign languages in this article].{{cite web |url= http://kamei.aacore.jp/akashi2006-e.html |title= History of the deaf and sign languages in Africa |date= December 25, 2006 |publisher= Aacore |language= ja |access-date= May 10, 2009 |archive-date= June 4, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090604172402/http://kamei.aacore.jp/akashi2006-e.html |url-status= live }} Some have distributions that are completely independent of those of African spoken languages. At least 13 foreign sign languages, mainly from Europe and America, have been introduced to at least 27 African nations; some of the 23 sign languages documented by Kamei have originated with or been influenced by them.

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| Jhankot Sign Language || village || (Nepal)

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| Jumla Sign Language || village || (Nepal)

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| Kailge Sign Language || village, perhaps related to SSSL || PNG

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| Kata Kolok || village || ({{a.k.a.}} Bali Sign Language, Benkala Sign Language)

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| Laotian Sign Language || || (related to Vietnamese languages; may be more than one SL)

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| Korean Sign Language (KSDSL) || Japanese || "한국수어 (or 한국수화)" / "Hanguk Soo-hwa"

Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken Korean

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| Macau Sign Language ||Shanghai Sign Language || "澳門手語" (MSL). Derives from the southern dialect of CSL.

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| Malaysian Sign Language || ASL || "Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia" (BIM)

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|Maldivian Sign Language (Dhivehi Sign Language)

|Local, Indian, ASL

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| Maunabudhuk–Bodhe Sign Language || village || Nepal

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| Mehek Sign Language || home sign? incipient? || PNG

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| Miyakubo Sign Language || village || Japan

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| Mongolian Sign Language || ? || "Монгол дохионы хэл"

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| Mount Avejaha Sign Language || village || PNG

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| Na Sai Sign Language || village || (Thailand) [no data]

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| Naga Sign Language || village? || (India) last reported in 1921

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| Nepali Sign Language || Indian || Indigenous sign language with inputs from Indian Sign Language, American Sign Language, International Sign, and others

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| New Zealand Sign Language || British || (NZSL)

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| Old Bangkok Sign Language || local (or village?) ||

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| Old Chiangmai Sign Language || local (or village?) ||

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| Papua New Guinean Sign Language || British ||

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| Penang Sign Language || local || (Malaysia)

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| Rennellese Sign Language || home sign, not a full language|| (Solomon Islands)

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| Rossel Island Sign Language village || PNG ||

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| Samoan Sign Language || Auslan ||

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| Selangor Sign Language || ASL? || (Malaysia)

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| Sinasina Sign Language || village? || PNG, not clear if developed

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| Singapore Sign Language || French || A blend of ASL, Auslan, BSL, SEE2, SSL and locally-developed signs.

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| Solomon Islands Sign Language || ||

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| Sri Lankan sign languages || local || (14 deaf schools with different languages)

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| Taiwanese Sign Language || Japanese || 臺灣手語 / Taiwan Ziran Shouyu

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| Tibetan Sign Language || local ||

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| Thai Sign Language || ASL || (TSL) "แบบสะกดนิ้วมือไทย" (incl. Hai Yai)

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| Vietnamese sign languages || local || (Hanoi Sign Language, Ho Chi Minh Sign Language, Haiphong Sign Language; some may be related to some of the Thai languages)

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| Wanib Sign Language || village || PNG

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| Yogyakarta Sign Language || ASL:Malaysian?:Indonesian || a variety of Indonesian Sign Language

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| Yolŋu Sign Language || local ||

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• Henniker Sign Language
• Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
• Old French Sign Language – ancestral to the French family
• Old Kent Sign Language – used in Kent villages in the 17th century, later incorporated into the British Sign Language.
• Sandy River Valley Sign Language

• Baby Sign – using signs to assist early language development in young children.
• Contact Sign – a pidgin or contact language between a spoken language and a sign language, e.g. Pidgin Sign English (PSE).
• Curwin Hand Signs – a technique which allows musical notes to be communicated through hand signs.
• International Sign (previously known as Gestuno) – an auxiliary language used by deaf people in international settings.
• Makaton – a system of signed communication used by and with people who have speech, language or learning difficulties.
• Mofu-Gudur Sign Language – conventional gestures used by speakers of Mofu-Gudur, a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon.
• Monastic sign language - sign languages used in Christian monasteries in Europe.
• Signalong – international sign assisted communication techniques used to support children and adults with communication or learning difficulties

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Manual modes of spoken languages include:

• General
• Cued Speech – a hand/mouth system (HMS) to render spoken language phonemes visually intelligible.
• Fingerspelling – alphabetic signs to represent the written form of a spoken language.
• English
• Manually Coded English
• Signing Exact English (SEE2)
• Makaton
• Malay
• Bahasa Malaysia Kod Tangan (BMKT)
• Speech-taboo languages
• Caucasian Sign Language
• Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles as a language of the deaf)

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Languages are assigned families (implying a genetic relationships between these languages) as British, Swedish (perhaps a branch of BSL), French (with branches ASL (American), Austro-Hungarian, Danish, Italian), German, Japanese, and language isolates.

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• Contact sign
• Intercultural competence
• Legal recognition of sign languages
• List of sign languages by number of native signers
• Manual alphabet
• Sign language
• World Federation of the Deaf

• [https://www.ethnologue.com/browse/families Ethnologue – Deaf sign languages]
• [http://www.spreadthesign.com Multiple accessible sign languages dictionaries]
• [http://lsf.wikisign.org/wiki/Langue:Signes_du_Monde/English_TOC Signes du Monde], directory for all online Sign Languages dictionaries {{in lang|fr|en}}

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