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America Sign Language (ASL) - Coggle Diagram
America Sign Language (ASL)
Gestures
Gesturers are silent to alert
Gestures provide information in a spatial manner
ASL is a visual gestural language created by deaf people
Gestures evolved over thousands of years into spoken language
Gestures are enhanced by facial expressions
Birth of ASL
pre-human ancestors would communicate by screaming, graduating, and babbling
sign language was known as a complex english language
40 percent came from unknown sources
60 percent of the signs in America originated from french signs
Deaf people didn't like it when a hearing person would consider them self as creating a sign
Improvements
poems, manual alphabet, books
no signs for the deaf and no need to have sign language or to be isolated in a gesturing silent world
19 handshakes, 12 locations and 24 moments present in sign language
In where stoke didn't like it in where they analyzed signs for patterns of years.
Signs that used to require one hand now require two hands while others now produced with one hand
Learning
words and ideas are best expressed through sign language
ASL signs are developed according to the boundaries of human visual system
ASL is away of expressing with rules and vocal to memorize
60 percent of the signs in america. originatedfrom
There books that were in American sign languages well as poems where deaf people would understand it