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Manually coded language in South Africa

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79:. The result is that, while deaf people from different language communities can communicate with each other without difficulty in SASL, they cannot understand "sign language" interpreters unless they have been schooled in the particular manually coded language used by the interpreter. That is, while they share a common language in SASL, they differ in their understanding of Signed English, Signed Afrikaans, Signed Xhosa, etc., which are not a normal form of communication for anyone. This results in the common misconception among even deaf South Africans that there are various sign languages in the country, when in fact there is only one. 72: 71:
Manually coded language is commonly used instead of SASL for simultaneous translation from an oral language into sign, for example at the
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of the country. These codes apply the signs of SASL to the grammar of the oral languages, resulting in
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Aarons & Reynolds, 2003, "South African Sign Language", in Monaghan, ed.,
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which has been developed for Afrikaans, South African English, and Setswana.
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Many Ways to be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities
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A very different form of manually coded language is
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that is held annually at different locations in the
117: 42:is used in education, as a bridge between 14: 118: 24: 25: 137: 100: 48:eleven official oral languages 13: 1: 93: 7: 44:South African Sign Language 29:South African Sign Language 10: 142: 26: 27:Not to be confused with 40:manually coded language 126:Signed oral languages 16:(Redirected from 133: 110: 104: 58:Signed Afrikaans 21: 141: 140: 136: 135: 134: 132: 131: 130: 116: 115: 114: 113: 105: 101: 96: 46:(SASL) and the 32: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 139: 129: 128: 112: 111: 98: 97: 95: 92: 53:Signed English 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 138: 127: 124: 123: 121: 109: 103: 99: 91: 89: 85: 80: 78: 74: 69: 67: 63: 59: 55: 54: 49: 45: 41: 37: 30: 19: 107: 102: 86:, an aid to 81: 77:Western Cape 70: 65: 62:Signed Xhosa 61: 57: 51: 36:South Africa 33: 18:Signed Venda 84:cued speech 66:Signed Zulu 94:References 88:lipreading 73:Deaf Forum 120:Category 34:In 122:: 64:, 60:, 56:, 38:, 31:. 20:)

Index

Signed Venda
South African Sign Language
South Africa
manually coded language
South African Sign Language
eleven official oral languages
Signed English
Deaf Forum
Western Cape
cued speech
lipreading
Category
Signed oral languages

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