Terminologies
A lack of physical hearing ability.
What is deaf? (lowercase d)
The country where American Sign Language is the native sign language, besides America.
What is Canada?
**except Quebec and some indigenous nations
The manual alphabet and other variations.
What is handshape?
Describe a person or object.
What are Descriptive Classifiers (DCL)?
Places and events for Deaf community members to commune.
What is a Deaf or ASL Social?
limited hearing ability
What is Hard of Hearing?
Proved ASL to be a true language with his two Deaf assistants, Carl Cronenberg and Dorothy Casterline.
Who is William Stokoe?
The physical place where the sign happens in relation to your body within the signer’s space.
What is Location?
Describe how an object is used.
What are Instrument Classifiers (ICL)?
A unique, personal way to identify someone without fully spelling out their name using American Sign Language.
What is a name sign?
A set of learned behaviors of a group of people who have learned their own language, values, rules of behavior, and traditions.
What is culture?
Described how a sign behaves within the signer's space.
What is a parameter?
The changing of the location of the hands.
What is Movement?
Show placement or spatial information about an object.
What are Locative Classifiers (LCL)?
What does BASL stand for?
What is Black American Sign Language?
Black History Month bonus :)
A member of Deaf culture.
Who is Deaf? (capital D)
How many types of Classifiers are there?
What is 8?
Which direction your palm is facing for a particular sign.
What is Palm Orientation?
Represent categories of nouns. For example, people or vehicles.
What are Semantic Classifiers (SCL)?
Poetry, stories, jokes, and legends that pass Deaf culture from one generation to the next.
What is ASL Literature?
Having a Deaf parent.
What is a CODA?
ASL is most closely related to...
What is French Sign Language (FSL)?
Facial expressions or body movements used to convey additional meaning of a sign.
What are Non-manual signals (NMS)?
Indicating a specific number or a non-specific number.
What are Plural Classifiers (PCL)?
The location of the first permanent school for deaf children in 1817, eventually known as the American School for the Deaf.
Where is Hartford, Connecticut?