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American Sign Language
American Sign Language
(
ASL
) is the predominant
sign language
of
deaf communities
in the United States and most of anglophone Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based
creoles
are used in many countries around the world, including much of
West Africa
and parts of
Southeast Asia
. ASL is also widely learned as a
second language
, serving as a
lingua franca
. ASL is most closely related to
French Sign Language
(LSF). It has been proposed that ASL is a
creole language
, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as
agglutinative morphology
.
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