British Sign Language

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Sgn ( sign language )

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British sign language (BSL ) is the sign language of the hearing impaired, which is used in the UK.

BSL is the mother tongue or preferred language of deaf or hard of hearing, about 70,000 in the UK. Like other sign languages ​​they used for hands, facial expressions and posture. Many thousands of hearing people use BSL, more than, for example, the Gaelic language.

Although the U.S. and the UK have the same spoken language, the two sign languages ​​BSL and American Sign Language (ASL ) are mutually unintelligible. In addition, the manual alphabet is different in the two by ASL using only one hand and both hands BSL.

The sign languages ​​in Australia ( Auslan ) and New Zealand (New Zealand Sign Language ) based in large part on BSL.

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