Belgian Sign Language
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Flemish Sign Language — language name=Flemish Sign Language nativename=VGT, Vlaamse Gebarentaal familycolor=silver fam1=Old French Sign Language states=Belgium region=Flanders (northern Belgium) and Brussels Capital Region signers=estimated 6,000 iso2=sgn BE VLG… … Wikipedia
Kenyan Sign Language — language name=Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) familycolor=silver states=Kenya signers=Unknown. Prelingually Deaf population estimated 200,000. family=Related to British Sign Language and American Sign Language; some signs from French (Belgian) Sign… … Wikipedia
French Sign Language — language name=French Sign Language caption=LSF in French manual alphabet nativename=LSF, langue des signes française fam1=Old French Sign Language states=France, Switzerland, Mali, Rwanda, Congo, Togo, Vietnam signers=estimated 80,000–300,000… … Wikipedia
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
Legal recognition of sign languages — The legal recognition of sign languages is one of the major concerns of the international Deaf community. There is no standard way in which such a recognition can be formally or legally extended; every country has its own interpretation. In some… … Wikipedia
List of sign languages — There are perhaps around two hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through creolization and de novo (and occasionally through language planning). In … Wikipedia
Manually coded language — Manually coded languages (MCLs) are representations of spoken languages in a gestural visual form; that is, sign language versions of spoken languages. Unlike the sign languages that have evolved naturally in Deaf communities, which have distinct … Wikipedia
V sign — For the V sign of dermatomyositis, see Shawl sign. An investigator flashes victory signs upon the 2006 arrival of material gathered by the Stardust spacecraft at the Johnson Space Center in Texas. The V sign is a hand gesture in which the index… … Wikipedia
French language — French La langue française Pronunciation [fʁɑ̃sɛ] Spoken in See below Native speakers 68 million (2005) … Wikipedia
Dutch language — Dutch Nederlands Pronunciation [ˈneːdərlɑnts] ( listen) … Wikipedia
