| 词汇 | ameslan |
| 词源 | Ameslan. Ameslan is the acronym for American Sign Lan- guage, the shorter term being first recorded in 1974. American Sign Language, a system of communication by manual signs used by the deaf, is more efficient than finger spelling and closer to being a natural language. Finger spelling is just “a means of transposing any alphabetized language into a gestural mode.” |
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