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      • Fingerspelling: When there is no word in one language, borrowing is a loanword from another language. In sign language, manual alphabet is used to represent a word of the spoken/written language.
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  2. Borrowing in sign language. Borrowing is the word formation process in which a word from one language is borrowed directly into another language. The following common English words are borrowed from foreign languages, for example: pizza from Italian, haiku from Japanese, algebra from Arabic, kindergarten from German.

  3. There are plenty of examples of signed languages borrowing or deriving words from spoken language. In ASL, the word DOG is a lexicalized fingerspelling of "dog", CHURCH is made with the "c" handshape corresponding to the first letter of "church", just to name a few.

  4. While American Sign Language (ASL) has a number of signed loanwords from other signed languages, it also can borrow words from spoken languages. How? Fingerspelling. Lexicalized fingerspelling. Unlike regular fingerspelling, fingerspelled loan signs are the signs that a fingerspelled word is evolved into a sign. They are also known as ...

  5. Has a spoken language ever borrowed from a sign language? There's no obvious way I can think of to accommodate a sign into speech, so I'm not sure how it would work. Or what about native sign language speakers using a spoken language (e.g. in writing) - do they show any influence from their native sign language?

  6. Words borrowed from spoken languages into signed languages can diverge in meaning from. the source (note: this is typical for borrowed words between spoken languages also) If signed languages are in fact human languages, what predictions can we make about ways in which they are similar to and diferent from spoken lgs? Similarities:

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  7. Sign languages vary in how much they borrow from spoken languages. In many sign languages, a manual alphabet (fingerspelling) may be used in signed communication to borrow a word from a spoken language, by spelling out the letters. This is most commonly used for proper names of people and places; it is also used in some languages for concepts ...

  8. Fingerspelled sequences represent a form of borrowing in which different configurations of the hand are each associated with a letter from the corresponding spoken language’s alphabet in order to spell out a word.

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