Sign Languages

ACERO
Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.
http://miajava.tripod.com/

Asian Sign Languages Bibliography
Links to bibliographic entries for thirteen Asian Sign Languages: Australasian, Chinese (CSL), Hong Kong (HKSL), Indian (INS), Indonesian, Japanese (JSL), Korean (KVK), Malaysian (BMT), Nepalese (NSP), Philippine (PSP), Sri Lankan (SQS), Taiwanese (TSS) and Thai (TSQ). Full-text articles not included.
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Keywords/Asian_sl.html

Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary
Two-volume set available for purchase.
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html

Chinese Sign Language Fact Sheet
From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/csl.htm

Deaf Action Front
Aims to improve the position of Flemish Sign Language and its signers. Information on the web site is given in Dutch, Flemish Sign Language, and English.
http://www.gebarentaal.be

Down Syndrome and Sign Language
Article that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?
http://www.tbinet.org/einstein-syndrome/development/sign_language.htm

Ethnologue Language Family Index: Deaf Sign Language
Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008

The Greek Manual Alphabet Page
Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.
http://www.deafblind.com/greecema.html

Indic Fingerspelling Project
Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India.
http://www.altruists.org/projects/if/

International Sign Language
Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list.
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202&L=slling-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=82

Libras
Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level.
http://www.libras.org.br

Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition
Resources about using computers to capture and decipher sign languages.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/

Maritime Sign Language Project Report
Study of a minority sign language in Eastern Canada. From the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, May 1999.
http://www.ccsdeaf.com/mari.html

Myths About Sign Language
Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.
http://www.top.net.nz/~hugh/Vanity/Personal/LanguageMyths.html

Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language
Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/BIDCone.html

A Nice Gesture
Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.
http://jeroenarendsen.nl/

The Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Language from a Typological Perspective
B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
http://sinine.ehi.ee/ehi/oppetool/lopetajad/merilin/

Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History
Historical linguistics research by M. Miles. Treats use of sign language from antquity to the present in India, Aghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran and Sri Lanka.
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Miles/Miles.html

Sign Language Assessment
Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
http://www.signlang-assessment.info/

Sign Language Studies
A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000.
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLS.html

Sign Writing
Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
http://www.signwriting.org/

SignGenius
Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language.
http://www.signgenius.com

Taiwanese Sign Language
Taipei Ph.D. Student Rung-Huei Liang introduces some gestures of TSL. Links to his gesture-recognition research.
http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~f1506028/TSL.html