Indian Sign Language
From AASL
Language name | Indian Sign Language |
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Region | Bangladesh, India |
Language name
Indian Sign Language
Region
Population of signers
2,680,000 in India (2003).
Language family
Dialects
Bangalore-Madras Sign Language
Bombay Sign Language(Mumbai Sign Language)
Calcutta Sign Language
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Bangalore-Madras Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan deSantis 1985. An introduction to the Bangalore variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Bombay Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan de Santis. 1986. An introduction to the Bombay variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Calcutta Sign Language
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan de Santis. 1987. An introduction to the Calcutta variety of Indian Sign Language. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet Research Institute.
Bibliography
Dasgupta, Tirthankar, Sandipan Dandpat and Anupam Basu. 2008. Prototype Machine Translation System From Text-To-Indian Sign Language. In: IJCNLP(International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing)-08 Workshop on NLP(Natural Language Processing) for Less Privileged Languages. Proceedings of the Workshop. 11. January, 2008, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. 19-26. http://ltrc.iiit.ac.in/anil/papers/nlplpl-08.pdf
Zeshan, Ulrike. 2000. Gebärdensprachen des indischen Subkontinents. München: Lincom Europa (Linguistic Research Forum, 4)
Deshmukh, Dilip. 1997. Sign Language and Bilingualism in Deaf Education. Ichalkaranji, India: Deaf Foundation
Deshmukh, Dilip. 1995. The status of sign language in deaf education in India. In: Mervin D. Garretson ed. Deafness: Life and culture, II. (A Deaf American Monograph, No. 45) Silver Spring, MD: NAD. 25-28
Sharma, Onkar. 1995. Sign language - controvery - status. AIFD All India Federation of the Deaf. In: News letter. New Delhi. Dec. 1995:2
Deshmukh, Dilip. 1994. The status of sign language in deaf education in India. Signpost 7/1:49-52
Jepson, Jill. 1991. Two Sign Languages in a Single Village in India. In Language Studies. 70:47-59
Jepson, Jill. 1991. Urban and Rural Sign Language in India. In: Language in Society. 1/2:37-57
Jepson, Jill. 1991. Some aspects of the deaf experience in India. Sign Language Studies. 20/73:453-459
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Susan DeSantis. 1987. Indian Sign Language. In: John V. van Cleve ed. Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness. Vol. 3. S-Z, Index. New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 79-81
Vasishta, Madan, James Woodward and Kirk L. Wilson. 1978. Sign languages in India: regional variations within the deaf populations. In: Indian journal of applied linguistics. v.4 no.2.66-74.
Vasishta, Madan. 1975. Pilot Project for a Comprehensive Study of Sign Languages of India. Washington: Gallaudet College. Manuscript
Phillot, D.C. 1907. A note on the mercantile sign language of India. In: Journal and Proceedings, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, N.S. III. 333-334
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
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Notes
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