American Sign Language
American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that is expressed by employing both... Wikipedia
Dialects: Black American Sign; Protactile; See Varieties of American Sign Language
Language family: French Sign-based (possibly a creole with Martha's Vineyard Sign Language): American Sign Language
Native to: United States, Canada
Region: Anglo-America
Signers: Native signers: 730,000 (2006); L2 signers: 130,000 (2006)
Writing system: None are widely accepted; si5s (ASLwrite), ASL-phabet, Stokoe notation, SignWriting