![]() ![]() ![]() Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken. Since then, ASL use has been propagated widely by schools for the deaf and Deaf community organizations. It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language of LSF, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.ĪSL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in West Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF). ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. 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 a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both manual and nonmanual features. ![]() Areas where ASL is in significant use alongside another sign languageĪmerican 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. ![]()
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