Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Endangered Sign Language(also: Minority Sign Language, Under-Documented Sign Language)
- A sign language at risk of falling out of use, typically because the Deaf community that uses it is small, geographically isolated, or under pressure to adopt a dominant sign language. Most of the world's estimated 300+ sign languages are poorly documented, with African sign…
- Eye-Gaze in Sign Language(also: Eye Gaze, Gaze Direction)
- The use of eye direction and movement as a grammatical and communicative feature in sign languages. In American Sign Language and other sign languages, eye-gaze serves multiple linguistic functions including indicating the location of referents in signing space, marking…
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