Middle East (general)
From AASL
Indigenous signs for "Middle East"
Spoken languages
Sign languages
Population of Deaf/deaf people
Legal status of sign languages
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Suwed, A. 1984. Quamus ishari carabi. [Arabic sign language dictionary].
Bibliography
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Al-Fityani, Kinda Carol Padden. 2010. Sign languages in Arab world. In : Brentari, Diane ed. Sign Languages. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 433-450.
Almohimeed, Abdulaziz, Mike Wald and Robert Damper. 2010. An Arabic Sign Language Corpus for Instructional Language in School. Presentation at The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) In : 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies ABSTRACTS 3-4.
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Al-Buraiky, Salah M. S. 2005. Arabic sign language recognition using an instrumented glove. Dissertation, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia.
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Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
The Arab Sign Dictionary for Deaf Ver. 1.0 (Sense Internet Solutions )
Disability and Deafness in the Middle East
Notes
| Middle East (general) | Middle East (general) |
|---|---|
| Anatolia | Turkey |
| Arabian Peninsula | Bahrain | Kuwait | Oman | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | UAE | Yemen |
| Iranian Plateau | Iran |
| Levant | Israel | Jordan | Lebanon | Syria |
| Areas and others | Palestine |
