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American Sign Language

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noun
  1. 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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Origin of American Sign Language

First recorded in 1960–65
Also called Ameslan.
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American sign language

noun
  1. See Ameslan
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