Contemporary deaf sign languages Africa There are at least 25 sign languages in Africa, according to researcher Nobutaka Kamei. Some have distributions that are completely independent of those of African spoken languages. At least 13 foreign sign languages, mainly from Europe and America, have been introduced to at least 27 African nations; some of the 23 sign languages documented by Kamei have originated with or been influenced by them.
Americas Asia-Pacific }" (JSL) Korean standard sign language – manually coded spoken
Korean Europe Middle East Historical deaf sign languages •
Henniker Sign Language •
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language •
Old French Sign Language – ancestral to the
French family •
Old Kent Sign Language – used in Kent villages in the 17th century, later incorporated into the British Sign Language. •
Sandy River Valley Sign Language Auxiliary sign languages •
Baby Sign – using signs to assist early language development in young children. •
Contact Sign – a
pidgin or
contact language between a spoken language and a sign language, e.g. Pidgin Sign English (PSE). •
Curwin Hand Signs – a technique which allows musical notes to be communicated through hand signs. •
International Sign (previously known as
Gestuno) – an auxiliary language used by deaf people in international settings. •
Makaton – a system of signed communication used by and with people who have speech, language or learning difficulties. •
Mofu-Gudur Sign Language – conventional gestures used by speakers of Mofu-Gudur, a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. •
Monastic sign language - sign languages used in Christian monasteries in Europe. •
Signalong – international sign assisted communication techniques used to support children and adults with communication or learning difficulties
Manual modes of spoken languages Manual modes of spoken languages include: • General •
Cued Speech – a hand/mouth system (HMS) to render spoken language phonemes visually intelligible. •
Fingerspelling – alphabetic signs to represent the written form of a spoken language. • English •
Manually Coded English •
Signing Exact English (SEE2) •
Makaton • Malay •
Bahasa Malaysia Kod Tangan (BMKT) • Speech-taboo languages •
Caucasian Sign Language •
Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though
Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles as a language of the deaf) ==Genetic classification of sign languages==