sign languages
Hands speak words
Sign languages are natural languages that use hand shapes, movements, facial expressions, and body posture rather than sound to convey meaning.
Each sign language—American Sign Language, British Sign Language, and dozens of others—is a complete linguistic system with its own grammar, not a visual translation of spoken language.
She learned ASL to communicate with her deaf coworkers.
- fingerspellingLetter-by-letter hand alphabet
- classifiersTools that assign categories
- gestureCommunicative body movement
- deaf communityPeople with hearing loss, connected
- Gallaudet UniversityUniversity serving deaf community
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