American Sign Language
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american-sign-language-188-3591435
title:
American Sign Language
text:
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States 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, ser
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sign language used predominately in the US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
date created:
2001-09-25T06:43:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T21:20:14Z
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13
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