sign language (countable and uncountable , plural sign languages )
( countable ) One of several natural languages , typically used by the deaf , in which words consist of hand shapes , motions , positions , and facial expressions.
2000 , Wendy Sandler, Diane Lillo-Martin, edited by Mark Aronoff and Janie Rees-Miller, The Handbook of Linguistics :It is safe to say that the academic world is now convinced that sign languages are real languages in every sense of the term.
( uncountable ) The sign language (sense 1) that is used locally or that is mistakenly believed to be the only one.
I'm taking night classes to learn sign language .
( uncountable ) Sign languages (sense 1) considered collectively.
There are some unique properties found in sign language compared to spoken language.
( countable or uncountable ) Communication through gestures as a substitute for language, for example, between monks under a vow of silence or during trade amongst different linguistic groups.
1847 , Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail :Even Maxwell the trader, who has been most among them, is compelled to resort to the curious sign language common to most of the prairie tribes.
sign language
Adamorobe Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Afghan Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: gebaretaal
Algerian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
American Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: لُغَة إِشَارَة f ( luḡa(t) ʔišāra )
Armenian: նշանաբանը ( nšanabanə )
Azerbaijani: işarə dili
Bavarian: Gebeadnsproch f , Gebeadnsproche f
Bengali: প্রতীকী ভাষা ( protiki bhaśa )
Bikol Central: palba (bcl)
Brazilian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: llengua de signes (ca) f
Catalan Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 手語 / 手语 (zh) ( shǒuyǔ )
Corsican: lingua di i cenni f
Czech: znakový jazyk m
Danish: tegnsprog (da) n
Dutch: gebarentaal (nl)
Esperanto: gestolingvo
Estonian: viipekeel (et)
Faroese: teknmál n
Finnish: viittomakieli (fi)
French: langue des signes (fr) f , langage des signes m
Galician: lingua de signos f
Georgian: ჟესტების ენა ( žesṭebis ena ) , ნიშნების ენა ( nišnebis ena )
German: Gebärdensprache (de) f , Zeichensprache (de) f
Greek: νοηματική γλώσσα (el) f ( noïmatikí glóssa )
Greenlandic: ussersuutit
Honduras Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: jelnyelv (hu)
Icelandic: ( sign language ) táknmál (is) n , ( finger language ) fingramál n
Indonesian: bahasa isyarat (id)
Inuktitut: ᐆᒃᑐᐊᕋᐅᓯᕋᖅ ( ooktoaraosiraq )
Inupiatun: urraaraq
Inuvialuktun: ujjiqsuuraq / tikuraq
Irish: teanga chomharthaíochta f
Italian: lingua dei segni f
Japanese Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: 手話 (ja) ( しゅわ, shuwa )
Kalaallisut: ussersuutit
Kazakh: ым тілі ( ym tılı )
Korean: 수화(手話) (ko) ( suhwa ) , 수어(手語) ( sueo )
Lakota: wíyutȟapi
Latin: lingua gesticulatoria f , lingua signorum f
Lule Sami: siejvvemgiella
Luxembourgish: Gebäerdesprooch f , Zeechesprooch f
Malay: bahasa isyarat (ms)
Maori: reo rotarota
Navajo: naashchid
Northern Sami: giehtagiella
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tegnspråk n
Nynorsk: teiknspråk n
Occitan: lenga dels signes f , lenga de signes f
Polish: język migowy (pl) m
Portuguese: linguagem de sinais f ( Brazil ) , língua gestual f ( Portugal ) , linguagem gestual f ( Portugal )
Romanian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Russian: язы́к же́стов m ( jazýk žéstov ) , же́стовый язы́к (ru) m ( žéstovyj jazýk )
Sardinian: limba de sos sinnos f
Scots: sign leid
Sicilian: lingua dî signa f
Spanish: lengua de signos f , lengua de señas f , idioma de signos m , idioma de señas m
Swahili: lugha ya ishara
Swedish: teckenspråk (sv) n
Tajik: забони ишоратӣ ( zabon-i išorati )
Thai: ภาษามือ (th) ( paa-sǎa-mʉʉ )
Tibetan: བརྡ་སྐད ( brda skad )
Turkish: işaret dili (tr)
Ukrainian: жестова мова f ( žestova mova )
Uzbek: ishora tili
Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ ký hiệu (vi) , thủ ngữ , ngôn ngữ dấu hiệu
Welsh: iaith arwyddion f
West Frisian: gebeartetaal
Yiddish: שטומ־לשון ( shtum-loshn )