Israeli Sign Language
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Revision as of 15:48, 16 July 2010
| Language name | Israeli Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Region | Israel |
Language name
Israeli Sign Language
(Altanate names) ISL
(Indigenous names) Sfàt ha-simaním ha-israelít
Region
Population of signers
5,000 users including some hearing persons (Van Cleve 1986).
Language family
Dialects
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Savir, Hava ed. 1992. Sha'ar li-´sefat simanim Yi´sra'elit = Gateway to Israeli Sign Language. Tel Aviv: The Association of the Deaf in Israel.
Namir, Lila, Israel Sella, Mordechai Rimor and Izchak M Schlesinger. 1977. Dictionary of sign language of the deaf in Israel. Jerusalem: Ministry of Social Welfare.
Bibliography
Meir, Irit and Wendy Sandler. 2007. "A Language in Space: the Story of Israeli Sign Language." New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Meir, Irit. 2007. The morphological realization of semantic fields. On-line proceedings of TISLR 9 conference, Florianopolis, Brazil.
Meir, Irit and Wendy Sandler. 2004. "safa bamerxav: eshnav le- sfat hasimanim hayisraelit (Language in Space: a Window onto Israeli Sign Language)." Haifa : University of Haifa Press. (in Hebrew).
Meir, Irit. 2001. Motion and Transfer: The Analysis of Two Verb Classes in Israeli Sign Language. In: Dively, Valerie, Melanie Metzger, Sarah Taub, and Anne Marie Baer eds. Signed languages: Discoveries from international research. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 74-87.
2000. Israeli Sign Language. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 115.
Meir, Irit. 1998. Thematic structure and verb agreement in Israeli Sign Language, Ph. D. dissertation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Weisel, Amatzia. 1995. Are there angels in heaven who know sign language? In: David. Chen ed. Education towards the 21st century. Tel Aviv : Ramot Publications. 503-515.
Schlesinger, I.M. 1987. Sign languages : Israeli. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 84-85.
Schlesinger, Izchak M. and Lila Namir. 1976. Recent research on Israeli Sign Language. In: Report on the 4th International Conference on Deafness. Tel Aviv, March, 18-23, 1973. Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf. 114.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
Links
The Sign Language Research Lab of The University of Haifa
Notes
| Anatolia | Seraglio Sign Language (Harem Sign Language) | Turkish Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Arabian Peninsula | Kuwaiti Sign Language | Saudi Arabian Sign Language |
| Iranian Plateau | Persian Sign Language (Iranian Sign Language) | Tea House Sign Language |
| Levant | Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language | Israeli Sign Language | Jordanian Sign Language | Yiddish Sign Language |
| Areas and others | Palestinian Sign Language |
