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Abdel-Fattah, M. A. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2005
Sign language in the Arab World has been recently recognized and documented. Many efforts have been made to establish the sign language used in individual countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Libya, and the Gulf States, by trying to standardize the language and spread it among members of the Deaf community and those concerned. Such efforts produced…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semitic Languages, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics
Proulx, Paul – 1988
A phonemic orthography poses serious problems for students from oral cultures, in part due to the very structure of such orthographies and in part due to negative transference from English spelling habits. A syllabic orthography minimizes the structural problems at the level of decoding, but is an obstacle to morpheme recognition and grammatical…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Anthropological Linguistics, Canada Natives, Cree