American Sign Language
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American Sign Language
n. Abbr. ASL
The primary sign language used by deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada, devised in part by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet on the basis of sign language in France. Also called Ameslan.
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American sign language
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See Ameslan
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Amer′ican Sign′ Lan`guage
n.
a visual-gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English-speaking parts of Canada. Abbr.: ASL
[1960–65]
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Noun | 1. | American sign language - the sign language used in the United States finger alphabet, manual alphabet - an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions sign language, signing - language expressed by visible hand gestures |
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