Below you will find example sentences with "sign language". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Sign Language in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: sign
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 43
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "sign language" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a full sign language particularly its, american sign language american sign, american, languages and asl stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with english language, programming language, official language, sign languages and american sign, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with sign language
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Lithuanian Sign Language and Russian Sign Language are used by the deaf community. (13 words)
Maritime Sign Language and South African Sign Language are also related to BSL. (13 words)
How the alphabet came to be used in a sign language, Sign Language Studies, 4.1. (16 words)
Communication systems similar to sign language There are a number of communication systems that are similar in some respects to sign languages, while not having all the characteristics of a full sign language, particularly its grammatical structure. (37 words)
When Deaf people from different sign language backgrounds get together, a contact variety of sign language arises from this contact, whether it is in an informal personal context or in a formal international context. (34 words)
Justin: I think immediately there were audience members who were tweeting that it wasn’t indigenous sign, it wasn’t South African sign, it wasn’t international, it wasn’t American Sign Language. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
American Sign Language American Sign Language (ASL) is similar to many other sign languages in that it has no grammatical tense but many verbal aspects produced by modifying the base verb sign.
As a consequence American Sign Language today has a 60% similarity to modern French Sign Language and is almost unintelligible to users of British Sign Language.
Irish Sign Language (ISL) has some influence from the French family of sign language, which includes American Sign Language (ASL).
Communication systems similar to sign language There are a number of communication systems that are similar in some respects to sign languages, while not having all the characteristics of a full sign language, particularly its grammatical structure.
There are a number of sign languages that emerged from French Sign Language (LSF), or are the result of language contact between local community sign languages and LSF.
Justin: I think immediately there were audience members who were tweeting that it wasn’t indigenous sign, it wasn’t South African sign, it wasn’t international, it wasn’t American Sign Language.
Mass for the hearing impaired in Sign Language: A sign language mass is held every second Sunday of the month at 3:00 PM at St. Antony Chapel, St. Patrick Church, Bengaluru.
She hopes to pursue further studies in sign language and to see sign language interpreters engaged in key public institutions.
On Sunday Sept. 23, deaf communities across the country rallied together for the International Day of Sign Languages and to convince legislation to make sign language the third official language of Canada.
Finally, Hawai'i Sign Language is spoken on the islands, but is dwindling in numbers due to American Sign Language supplanting HSL through schooling and various other domains.
For example, a sign language used by a small community may be endangered and even abandoned as users shift to a sign language used by a larger community.
How the alphabet came to be used in a sign language, Sign Language Studies, 4.1.
In: Ahlgren, Inger / Bergman, Brita / Brennan, Mary (eds): Perspectives on sign language structure: Papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Sign Language Research.
It may be used to represent words from an oral language which have no sign equivalent, or for emphasis, clarification, or when teaching or learning a sign language.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. BSL is also distinct from Irish Sign Language (ISL) (ISG in the ISO system) which is more closely related to French Sign Language (LSF) and ASL.
Lithuanian Sign Language and Russian Sign Language are used by the deaf community.
Maritime Sign Language and South African Sign Language are also related to BSL.
Regulators and turn-taking in American Sign Language discourse, in Lynn Friedman, On the other hand: New perspectives on American Sign Language.
Thai Sign Language is a mixed language derived from ASL and the native sign languages of Bangkok and Chiang Mai, and may be considered part of the ASL family.
When Deaf people from different sign language backgrounds get together, a contact variety of sign language arises from this contact, whether it is in an informal personal context or in a formal international context.