- published: 13 Oct 2012
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American Sign Language (ASL) is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of anglophone Canada. 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, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.
ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use has propagated widely via schools for the deaf and deaf community organizations. Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken, though reliable estimates for American ASL users range from 250,000 to 500,000 persons, including a number of children of deaf adults. ASL users face stigma due to beliefs in the superiority of oral language to sign language, compounded by the fact that ASL is often glossed in English due to the lack of a standard writing system.
A sign language (also signed language) is a language which chiefly uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning, as opposed to acoustically conveyed sound patterns. This can involve simultaneously combining hand shapes, orientation and movement of the hands, arms or body, and facial expressions to fluidly express a speaker's thoughts. They share many similarities with spoken languages (sometimes called "oral languages", which depend primarily on sound), which is why linguists consider both to be natural languages, but there are also some significant differences between signed and spoken languages.
Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages have been developed. Signing is not only used by the deaf, it is also used by people who can hear, but cannot physically speak. While they use space for grammar in a way that spoken languages do not, sign languages show the same linguistic properties and use the same language faculty as do spoken languages. Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world and are at the cores of local deaf cultures. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition, while others have no status at all.
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Dr. Bill Vicars reviewing basic American Sign Language (ASL) signs with a student (Sarah). This video doesn't need or use sound. For individual vocabulary items and additional information see "First 100 Signs" at: http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/concepts.htm For basic fingerspelling help, see http://asl.gs For fingerspelling practice, see http://asl.ms
This is a beginner's introduction to some American Sign Language words and phrases. Get your basic conversational skills started with this newbie-level video. [...read on for more description...] My original beginner conversational ASL video (quicker, shorter) can still be found at: https://youtu.be/5_gK4-YoN7s -- This updated video is a bit more slowed down with better accessibility for all levels. I hope you find it useful! Signs shown include (in order): HELLO, How are you, GOOD, BAD, FINE, SO-SO, OK/OKAY, GREAT or WONDERFUL, WHAT'S UP, NOTHING, BUSY, NOT A-LOT, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?, MY NAME IS, NICE TO MEET YOU, YES, NO, DEAF, HEARING, HARD-OF-HEARING, "I'm hearing, and I'm learning ASL", LEARN, "I want to learn ASL", WANT, ASL, American Sign Language, UNDERSTAND, "I don't understa...
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I said (I said), I saw it coming (I saw it coming)
Where did you see it? Where did you see it?(x2)
Why are you panting baby?
Is it to hard to keep up with what you said?
From the outskirts of common sense this is extremely uncommon.(anonymous voices; anonymous voices)
So many lights ahead, if only we kept our eyes open.
But now I understand that even if I was blind I could have clearly seen how filthy you really are.(x2)
Sure.
It would have been an excellent story,
but I had to get up off the train.
Get up, jump off with me, hold my hand and I'll explain everything.
If only it was that easy story teller.
Would you mind never speaking to me again?
I would like for you to remain a myth
( close the book burn it up)
Tell me another lie,
That it's all going to be ok,
eating up every word you say,
It's starting to taste good.
I haven't heard one thing you have said;
this whole time you were talking
I was to busy picturing you dead.(x2)
(Incoherent)
If I were to end abruptly, would it leave you wanting more?