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• - Project to devise a common fingerspelling system for the Indian subcontinent, bridging the Hindi, Bengali, Gujurati, Punjabi and other sign languages of India.
  
• - Article that discusses whether using sign language in Down Syndrome interferes with speech later?
  
• - Brief explanation with citations from Dr. Steven Schaufele. Reprinted from the LINGUIST list.
  
• - Freeware fingerspelling software which supports ASL, BSL, and Indonesian.
  
• - Two-volume set available for purchase.
  
• - Resources about using computers to capture and decipher sign languages.
  
• - Offers a videotape and workbook to assist with learning Brazilian Sign Language at a beginning level.
  
• - Web ring for the deaf and hearing impaired related sites. Details of how to join the web ring.
  
• - Transcription system for signed languages. Catalogs, library, online lessons, forum, downloadable SignWriter shareware, Sutton fonts, sign dictionaries, literature.
  
• - From Jeremy Wilkinson and Berna Marthinussen. In English.
  
• - Small .gif images of Greek fingerspelling. Displays written letters in Roman and Greek forms. From deafblind.com.
  
• - Interactive software for learning South African Sign Language.
  
• - Overview on different sign language assessments and provides information on test development and testing.
  
• - Taipei Ph.D. Student Rung-Huei Liang introduces some gestures of TSL. Links to his gesture-recognition research.
  
• - Links to bibliographic entries for thirteen Asian Sign Languages: Australasian, Chinese (CSL), Hong Kong (HKSL), Indian (INS), Indonesian, Japanese (JSL), Korean (KVK), Malaysian (BMT), Nepalese (NSP), Philippine (PSP), Sri Lankan (SQS), Taiwanese (TSS) a
  
• - Exclusive excerpt from Gallaudet University Press, by David and Rachel Locker McKee.
  
• - Historical linguistics research by M. Miles. Treats use of sign language from antquity to the present in India, Aghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, Persia/Iran and Sri Lanka.
  
• - Index of world signed languages from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Joseph E. Grimes and Barbara F. Grimes, Editors, 14th Edition 2002.
  
• - B.A. thesis by Merilin Miljan, Estonian Institute for the Humanities.
  
• - Aims to improve the position of Flemish Sign Language and its signers. Information on the web site is given in Dutch, Flemish Sign Language, and English.
  
• - Study of a minority sign language in Eastern Canada. From the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, May 1999.
  
• - Hugh Young from New Zealand dispels universal myths about sign languages, as well as about Pidgin as Maori.