Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.
http://jeroenarendsen.nl/Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.
http://miajava.tripod.com/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.htmlTwo-volume set available for purchase.
http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.htmlFrom Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/csl.htmAims 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.beArticle that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?
http://www.tbinet.org/einstein-syndrome/development/sign_language.htmIndex 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=90008Project 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/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=82Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level.
http://www.libras.org.brResources about using computers to capture and decipher sign languages.
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/Study of a minority sign language in Eastern Canada. From the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, May 1999.
http://www.ccsdeaf.com/mari.htmlHugh 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.htmlExclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/BIDCone.htmlOverview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
http://www.signlang-assessment.info/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.htmlTranscription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
http://www.signwriting.org/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.htmlInteractive software for learning South African Sign Language.
http://www.signgenius.comTaipei 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.htmlSmall .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.
http://www.deafblind.com/greecema.htmlB.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
http://sinine.ehi.ee/ehi/oppetool/lopetajad/merilin/