NorwegianSignLanguage
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Sigma KEE - NorwegianSignLanguage
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NorwegianSignLanguage is a DeafSignLanguage of Norway. SIL code: NSL. ISO 639-2: sgn. Population: 4,000 deaf users out of about 4,000 deaf (1986 Gallaudet Univ.). Dialects: HOLMESTRAND, OSLO, TRONDHEIM. Comments: Intelligible with Danish and Swedish sign languages with only moderate difficulty. Not intelligible with Finnish Sign Language. Used since 1815. The first deaf school was begun in 1825, first club in 1878. It is passed to the next generation mainly through the schools. 3 dialects are associated with 3 schools. Signed Norwegian is used by teachers, pupils use Norwegian Sign Language among themselves. Signed interpretation required in court, provided some for college students, in mental health programs. Sign language instruction provided for parents of deaf children. Many classes for hearing people. There is a committee on national sign language. There is a manual system for spelling. Films, TV, videos.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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Instances | 內容承載物理 | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| 聾人手語 | A DeafSignLanguage is a ManualHumanLanguage primarily intended for communication between a deaf individual and a hearing individual or between deaf individuals.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| 手動人類語言 | A ManualHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium gestures and movement, such as the shape, position, and movement of the hands. |
| Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
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