Japanese Sign Language

日本手話

Japanese Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Japan.

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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct from but influenced by the spoken Japanese language.

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