| Websites in 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.doofactiefront.be/
- Deaf Web Ring
Web ring for the deaf and hearing impaired related sites. Details of how to join the web ring.
http://hem.passagen.se/sdd/deafwebring/dwr.htm
- 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/ethno_docs/special.asp#sign
- 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
- 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
- Sign Language Assessment
Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
http://www.signlang-assessment.info/
- Sign Writing
Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
http://www.SignWriting.org/
- 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
- 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
- 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
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