American Sign Language
noun
a visual-gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English-speaking parts of Canada. Abbreviation: ASL
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Also called Ameslan.
Origin of American Sign Language
First recorded in 1960–65
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