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Heres an American Sign Language appaslSign languageSign language alphabetAn overview of American Sign Language (ASL).American Sign Language (ASL), is a natural language that serves as the dominant language sign 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 atypical features of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology.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.Classification ASLASL emerged as a language in the American School for the Deaf (ASD), founded by Thomas Gallaudet in 1817,HistoryASLPrior to the birth of ASL, sign language had been used by various communities in the United States. In the United States, as elsewhere in the world, hearing families with deaf children have historically employed ad hoc home sign, which often reaches much higher levels of sophistication than gestures used by hearing people in spoken conversation.ASL sign language application containsaslsign languagesign language alphabetasl alphabetsign language wordsplease sign languagelearnsignlanguagesign language letterssign language translatormore in sign languagelearn aslbasicsignlanguageabcs in sign languageIt also contains an ASL application of the applications featureshandspeak -ASLsign language interpreterasl sign languageno sign languageIt contains important terms for communicating in American Sign Languageg in sign languageasl letterst in sign languagejapanese sign languagelearn sign language onlinesign language words for beginnersasl languagesign language for beginnersplease in aslhave in asla sign languagehand sign languagefingerspellingi in sign languagespanishsignlanguagewater sign languagelifeprint aslno in aslwith in aslsign language appasl signslearn asl onlinewant in asldeaf in aslneed in asllearn sign language appm in sign languagen in sign languagey in sign languagesimple sign languageasl wordsyou sign languagedeaf sign languagebasic aslmore in aslasl prolearn americansignlanguageg in aslfor in asl20 in aslwant in sign languagedo in asleasy sign languaget in aslaslproi in aslin asldeaf interpreterbasic sign language wordsto aslsign language phrasessign language for hungryasl apptoday aslmorning in asland in sign languageall in aslsign language signsasl fingerspellingenglish aslasl for beginnersduolingo aslweek in aslfunny aslbasic asl signshungry aslnight in aslmexican sign languagewhich in aslsad in aslhave sign languagewater asllearn asl appyou in aslapple asl