noun

• A system of communication using visual gestures and signs, as used by deaf people.

  ‘If the linguistic space is sign language, then the deaf infant will acquire language in that modality.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The videophone is already being used to let patients talk remotely to doctors, and by deaf people to communicate in sign language.’
  • ‘She was phenomenal - she trained for about two months with a deaf lady and learnt sign language.’
  • ‘He also knew of elders from a previous generation who were deaf and used sign language.’
  • ‘The script of the play will be put on the whiteboard so that anyone in the audience who does not understand sign language will be able to follow the plot.’
  • ‘You don't have to understand sign language to enjoy the show, nor do you have to hear the performance to enjoy it.’
  • ‘Chloe's mum, Emma, works for the East Lancashire Deaf Society and has been using sign language for two years.’
  • ‘Fortunately, one of the nurses at the surgery has a deaf relative and has picked up some sign language along the way.’
  • ‘Now I go to a school where everyone uses sign language and we can communicate easily with each other.’
  • ‘Today, linguistic research confirms that sign language is a real language.’
  • ‘She returns to the chateau outside Lyon and learns to communicate through sign language.’
  • ‘I can understand the older people best because they use sign language too.’
  • ‘While in Dublin she learned sign language at a course in Trinity College so she could communicate with her son.’
  • ‘She first borrowed a kit to learn and teach Makaton, a simple form of sign language, to make it easier to communicate with Felix.’
  • ‘She is profoundly deaf and will rely on communicating with the rest of the crew by sign language.’
  • ‘Few people deafened in middle age become proficient in sign language or identify strongly with deaf culture.’
  • ‘They even learnt sign language because of having a deaf boy there, which was excellent.’
  • ‘The recent World Cup inaugural ceremony coverage had an instructor using sign language.’
  • ‘Kavita learned to talk to them in sign language by the time she was three.’
  • ‘Two people have sat next to me and are conversing in rapid sign language and working on a series of forms and business documents.’