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Makaton – a system of signed communication used by and with people who have speech, language or learning difficulties. Mofu-Gudur Sign Language. Monastic sign language. Signalong – international sign assisted communication techniques used to support children and adults with communication or learning difficulties.
The following dialect groups are sometimes classified as "Swedish" in the broadest sense (North Scandinavian): [6] Archaic Gutnish. Dalecarlian. Archaic Finnish Swedish, Estonian Swedish, Swedish. Archaic Norrlandic, Jamtska. Dalecarlian is intermediate in some respects between East and West Scandinavian. Scanian, a dialect of East Danish, is ...
It is customary to classify Swedish nouns into five declensions based on their plural indefinite endings: -or, -ar, - (e)r, -n, and no ending. Nouns of the first declension are all of the common gender (historically feminine). The majority of these nouns end in -a in the singular and replace it with -or in the plural.
Tactile signing is a common means of communication used by people with deafblindness. It is based on a sign language or another system of manual communication . "Tactile signing" refers to the mode or medium, i.e. signing (using some form of signed language or code), using touch. It does not indicate whether the signer is using a tactile form ...
Classification. Henri Wittmann (1991) assigned DSL to the French Sign Language family because of similarities in vocabulary. Peter Atke Castberg studied deaf education in Europe for two years (1803–1805), including at l'Épée's school in Paris, and founded the first deaf school in Denmark in 1807, where Danish Sign Language (DTS) developed.
German Sign Language ( German: Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg [2] and in the German-speaking community of Belgium [citation needed]. It is unclear how many use German Sign Language as their main language; Gallaudet University estimated 50,000 as of 1986.
The Language Council of Sweden ( Swedish: Språkrådet) is the primary regulatory body for the advancement and cultivation of the Swedish language. The council is a department of the Swedish government's Institute for Language and Folklore ( Swedish: Institutet för språk och folkminnen ). The council asserts control over the language through ...
