Sign Language
224 languages
Glottolog lists 224 languages under “Sign Language”: languages grouped by what they are rather than by where they descend from.
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Sign languages are not gestures for speech but complete languages with their own grammar. There are more than two hundred, and their lineages ignore the spoken languages around them: ASL and British Sign Language are mutually unintelligible.
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning rather than spoken words. They are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers, and are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible, although there are similarities among different sign languages.
Wherever communities of deaf and hard of hearing people exist, sign languages have developed as a means of communication and form the core of local Deaf cultures. Although signing is used primarily by deaf and hard of hearing people, it is also used by hearing individuals, such as those with deaf family members including children of deaf adults (CODAs).
Sign languages are distinct from body language, a type of nonverbal communication. Linguists also distinguish natural sign languages from other systems that are precursors to them or derived from them, such as constructed manual codes for spoken languages, home sign, baby sign language, and signs used with non-human primates.
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L1 Sign Language219
- Zimbabwe Sign Language
- Tanzanian Sign Language
- Chilean Sign Language
- Cambodian Sign Language
- Albanian Sign Language
- Latvian Sign Language
- Tebul Sign Language
- Tibetan Sign Language
- Turkish Sign Language
- Miyakubo Sign Language
- Sivia Sign Language
- Bay Islands Sign Language
- Jumla Sign Language
- Adamorobe Sign Language
- Afghan Sign Language
- Albarradas Sign Language
- Alipur Sign Language
- Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
- Amami O Shima Sign Language
- Angami Naga Sign Language
- Arab El-Naim Sign Language
- Argentine Sign Language
- Langue de Signes Malienne
- Ban Khor Sign Language
- Kata Kolok
- Berbey Sign Language
- Bhutanese Sign Language
- Bribri Sign Language
- Brunca Sign Language
- Bura Sign Language
- Cena
- Central Taurus Sign Language
- San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language
- Cuba Sign Language
- Dadhkai Village Sign Language
- Douentza Sign Language
- Douz Sign Language
- Ein Mahal Sign Language
- Enga Sign Language
- Extreme North Cameroon Sign Language
- Far North Queensland Indigenous Sign Language
- Ghandruk Sign Language
- Ghardaia Sign Language
- Guatemalan Sign Language
- Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
- Hausa Sign Language
- Hawai'i Sign Language
- Ibokun Sign Language
- Inuit Sign Language
- Isyarat Lama Asli Bali
- Isyarat Lama Cicendo
- Jamaican Country Sign Language
- Jhyankot Sign Language
- Kafr Qasem Sign Language
- Kailge Sign Language
- Kajana Sign Language
- Kenya-Somali Sign Language
- Keresan Pueblo Indian Sign Language
- Langue des Signes Zairoise
- Langue des Signes de Bouakako
- Língua de sinais Fortalezinha
- Língua de sinais de Caiçara
- Língua de sinais do Uiramutã
- Macushi Sign Language
- Magajingari Sign Language
- Maltese Sign Language
- Marajo Sign Language
- Mardin Sign Language
- Maunabudhuk and Bodhe Local Sign
- Mauritian Sign Language
- Mavea Sign Language
- Maxakali Sign Language
- Mbour Sign Language
- Mehek Sign Language
- Miriwoong Sign Language
- Mofu-Gudur Sign Language
- Mozambican Sign Language
- Nanabin Sign Language
- Nebaj Shared Homesign Systems
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
- Nueva Vida Maijuna Sign Language
- Original Costa Rican Sign Language
- Papiu Yanomama Sign Language
- Paraguayan Sign Language
- Penang Sign Language
- Zaban Eshareh Irani
- Portuguese Sign Language
- Qahvehkhaneh Sign Language
- Salvadoran Sign Language
- Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language
- Seychelles Sign Language
- Sinasina Sign Language
- South Rupununi Sign
- South Sudanese Sign Language
- Urubú-Kaapor Sign Language
- Uruguayan Sign Language
- Wanib Sign Language
- Wimbum Sign Language
- Yolngu Sign Language
- Yoruba Sign Language
- Zambian Sign Language
- Zinacantec family homesign
LSFic59
- Brazilian Sign Language
- French Sign Language
- Greek Sign Language
- Algerian Sign Language
- Irish Sign Language
- Mexican Sign Language
- Swiss-French Sign Language
ASLic33
- Ethiopian Sign Language
- Quebec Sign Language
- Burkina Faso Sign Language
- Costa Rican Sign Language
- Gambian Sign Language
- Guinean Sign Language
- Moroccan Sign Language
- Philippine Sign Language
- Puerto Rican Sign Language
- Sierra Leone Sign Language
- Thai Sign Language
- Ugandan Sign Language
American Sign9
West-Central South American Sign5
Peruvian-Inmaculada Sign2
Malaysian Sign4
Indonesian Sign2
Honduras-Panama Sign3
Central European Sign7
Nuclear Central European Sign4
West Scandinavian Sign4
Danish Sign2
Norwegian Sign2
Dutch-Belgian Sign3
Yugoslav Sign2
BSLic11
BANZSL6
South African Sign3
Arab Sign8
- Egypt Sign Language
- Kuwaiti Sign Language
- Libyan Sign Language
- Saudi Arabian Sign Language
- Yemeni Sign Language