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American Sign Language (50)
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Austrian Sign Language (2)
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Danish Sign Language (1)
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Irish Sign Language (1)
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Japanese Sign Language (3)
Malaysian Sign Language (2)
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Native American Sign Systems (5)
Nicaraguan Sign Language (9)

Norwegian Sign Language (2)
Russian Sign Language (2)
Sign Language of Québec (2)
Sign Language of Singapore (1)
Sign Language of The Netherlands (4)
Signing with Babies (35)
Spanish Sign Language (2)
Swedish Sign Language (2)

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	Sign, Gesture and Deafness in South Asian and South West Asian History - http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Miles/Miles.html Historical linguistics research by M. Miles. Treats use of sign language from antquity to the present in India, Aghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran and Sri Lanka.
	Sign Language Studies - http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/SLS.html A journal that focuses on the study of sign language and the people who use it. Quarterly archives of the journal are available online from Fall 2000.
	http://www.libras.org.br - http://www.libras.org.br Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level.
	A Nice Gesture - http://jeroenarendsen.nl/ Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.
	Sign Language Assessment - http://www.signlang-assessment.info/ Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.

	Ethnologue Language Family Index: Deaf Sign Language - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008 Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.
	SignGenius - http://www.signgenius.com Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language.
	The Greek Manual Alphabet Page - http://www.deafblind.com/greecema.html Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.
	Machine Gesture and Sign Language Recognition - http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~waleed/gsl-rec/ Resources about using computers to capture and decipher sign languages.
	Deaf Action Front - http://www.gebarentaal.be Aims to improve the position of Flemish Sign Language and its signers. Information on the web site is given in Dutch, Flemish Sign Language, and English.

	Sign Writing - http://www.signwriting.org/ Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
	Name Signs and Identity in New Zealand Sign Language - http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/excerpts/BIDCone.html Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
	New Zealand Sign Online - http://www.signplanet.net/ Searchable database of images and activities for Auslan, British, American, and New Zealand Sign Languages. Browse by category or learning level, download pre-made worksheets, and play online games.
	Chinese Sign Language Fact Sheet - http://library.thinkquest.org/11942/csl.htm From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.
	Myths About Sign Language - http://www.top.net.nz/~hugh/Vanity/Personal/LanguageMyths.html Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.

	Indic Fingerspelling Project - http://www.altruists.org/projects/if/ Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India.
	The Noun Phrase in Estonian Sign Language from a Typological Perspective - http://sinine.ehi.ee/ehi/oppetool/lopetajad/merilin/ B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
	Asian Sign Languages Bibliography - http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/bibweb/Keywords/Asian_sl.html Links to bibliographic entries for thirteen Asian Sign Languages: Australasian, Chinese (CSL), Hong Kong (HKSL), Indian (INS), Indonesian, Japanese (JSL), Korean (KVK), Malaysian (BMT), Nepalese (NSP), Philippine (PSP), Sri Lankan (SQS), Taiwanese (TSS) and Thai (TSQ). Full-text articles not included.
	Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary - http://www.signwriting.org/brazil/brazil21.html Two-volume set available for purchase.
	http://miajava.tripod.com/ - http://miajava.tripod.com/ Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.

International Sign Language - http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202&L=slling-l&D=1&F=&S=&P=82
Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list.

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