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Sigma KEE - IsraeliSignLanguage
IsraeliSignLanguage(israeli sign language)

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(documentation IsraeliSignLanguage EnglishLanguage "IsraeliSignLanguage is a DeafSignLanguage of Israel. SIL code: ISL. ISO 639-2: sgn. Population: 5,000 users including some hearing persons (1986 Gallaudet Univ.). Comments: Not derived from and relatively little influence from other sign languages. No special signs have been introduced from outside by educators. Minor dialect variation. Not all deaf use ISL. Interpreters are provided in courts. Some interpretation for college students. Sign language instruction for parents of deaf children. Many sign language classes for hearing people. There is a committee on national sign language, and an organization for sign language teachers. The sign language used in classrooms and that by deaf adults outside is different. The first deaf school was established in Jerusalem in 1934. A fingerspelling system was developed in 1976. Dictionary. Grammar. Employs the Eshkol-Wachmann movement notation system. Films, TV, videos. Jewish.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") Languages.kif 713-725
(instance IsraeliSignLanguage DeafSignLanguage) Languages.kif 712-712 Israeli sign language is an instance of deaf sign language

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(termFormat ChineseLanguage IsraeliSignLanguage "以色列手语") domainEnglishFormat.kif 31229-31229
(termFormat ChineseTraditionalLanguage IsraeliSignLanguage "以色列手語") domainEnglishFormat.kif 31228-31228
(termFormat EnglishLanguage IsraeliSignLanguage "israeli sign language") domainEnglishFormat.kif 31227-31227


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