Definitions for American Sign Language
amer·i·can sign lan·guage

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1. ASL, American sign languagenoun

   the sign language used in the United States

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1. American sign languagenoun

   a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.

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1. American Sign Languagenoun

   a language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on English words, but ASL syntax and grammar are not based on English. ISO 639-3 code: ase.

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1. American Sign Language

   American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language of LSF, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology. ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in West Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use has been propagated widely by schools for the deaf and Deaf community organizations. Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken. Reliable estimates for American ASL users range from 250,000 to 500,000 persons, including a number of children of deaf adults and other hearing individuals. ASL signs have a number of phonemic components, such as movement of the face, the torso, and the hands. ASL is not a form of pantomime although iconicity plays a larger role in ASL than in spoken languages. English loan words are often borrowed through fingerspelling, although ASL grammar is unrelated to that of English. ASL has verbal agreement and aspectual marking and has a productive system of forming agglutinative classifiers. Many linguists believe ASL to be a subject–verb–object language. However, there are several alternative proposals to account for ASL word order.

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1. american sign language

   American Sign Language (ASL) is a complete, complex language that employs signs made with the hands, facial expressions, and other bodily postures as its forms of communication. It is predominantly used by deaf individuals and those who are hard of hearing in the United States and parts of Canada. It has its own grammar, syntax, and vocabulary separate from English, and it is not a universal language - meaning it varies from country to country, similarly to spoken languages.

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1. American Sign Language

   American Sign Language is the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language, and might be considered an FSL-based creole. Despite the fact that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia have English as a common oral language, ASL is not mutually intelligible with British Sign Language or with Auslan. ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in 1817, the school adopted the pedagogical methods of the French Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris, including the use of French Sign Language. The school brought together deaf students with their own home sign or village sign systems, and in this situation of language contact ASL was born. It has been proposed that this was an event of creole genesis, but ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.

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How to pronounce American Sign Language?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say American Sign Language in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of American Sign Language in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of American Sign Language in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of American Sign Language in a Sentence

1. Christina Pacala:

   My husband and I welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Riley, into the world in October 2020, shortly after Riley's birth through a series of tests with an audiologist, we learned that Riley is deaf.We've made it our goal to give Riley access to as many tools as possible to help her communication and development – that includes giving her access to both American Sign Language, and spoken English.

2. Christina Pacala:

   Riley hearing our voices for the first time was a special moment for us, and it's been fun to share that, and many other special moments, too, like Riley taking her first steps, Riley's first signs and our family learning American Sign Language together.

3. Douglas Ridloff:

   I breathe American Sign Language, when ASL stops, then I will stop breathing.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=American Sign Language
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=American Sign Language
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=American Sign Language