Definitions for asl
asl

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1. ASL, American sign languagenoun

   the sign language used in the United States

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1. asl

   American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States of America and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. 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 of LSF, 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 West Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use has been propagated widely by schools for the deaf and Deaf community organizations. Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken. Reliable estimates for American ASL users range from 250,000 to 500,000 persons, including a number of children of deaf adults and other hearing individuals. ASL signs have a number of phonemic components, such as movement of the face, the torso, and the hands. ASL is not a form of pantomime although iconicity plays a larger role in ASL than in spoken languages. English loan words are often borrowed through fingerspelling, although ASL grammar is unrelated to that of English. ASL has verbal agreement and aspectual marking and has a productive system of forming agglutinative classifiers. Many linguists believe ASL to be a subject–verb–object language. However, there are several alternative proposals to account for ASL word order.

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1. asl

   ASL stands for American Sign Language, a complete, complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. It is the primary language of many North Americans who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and is prominent among the sign languages of the world.

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1. ASL

   What does ASL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the ASL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Sign Language

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Anagrams for asl »

1. sal

2. Sal

3. SLA

4. las

5. LSA

How to pronounce asl?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say asl in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of asl in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of asl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of asl in a Sentence

1. Timothy Clune:

   It is inexplicable that during this pandemic, the Governor would choose not to have ASL interpreters at his daily live televised briefings, as a result, New Yorkers are unable to obtain vital life and death information at the time they need it most.

2. Douglas Ridloff:

   I breathe American Sign Language, when ASL stops, then I will stop breathing.

3. Heidi Reed:

   We wanted to ensure that affected jurors who used ASL would have the opportunity to go through the selection process and potentially serve on a jury.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=asl
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asl
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=asl