Philippines

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Indigenous signs for "Philippines"

Movies

Sign of country name "Philippines" (Data offered by Deaf informants in Philippines; movie made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)

Illustrations in the literature

"Philippines" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 19.)

Spoken languages

Filipino

English

Sign languages

Philippine Sign Language

Related sign languages:

American Sign Language

Population of Deaf/deaf people

100,000 deaf persons in Philippines (Van Cleve 1986).

Ethnologue, 16th Edition

Legal status of sign languages

Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf

Philippine Federation of the Deaf (WFD member, cited from WFD website)

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

MacFadden, Jane. 1977. Sign as you speak. Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines: Southeast Asian Institute for the Deaf.

Bibliography

De Guzman, Maria Tanya L. 2007. Mental Health Services in the Philippines: A Deaf Perspective In : Goodstein, Harvey ed. The Deaf Way II Reader : Perspectives from the Second International Conference on Deaf Culture. Washington,DC: Gallaudet University Press. 166-171.

Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2007. Status Report on the use of sign language in the Philippines. PFD(Philippine Federation of the Deaf) unpublished report.

Abat, Rafaelito M. and Liza B. Martinez. 2006. The history of sign language in the Philippines : piecing together the puzzle.9th Philippine Linguistics Congress (25-27January 2006). Organized by the Department of Linguistics, University of the Philippines.

Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2005. A compilation of signs from regions of the Philippines. Part 1. Quezon City: LFS Printing Services, Inc.

Benitez-dela Torre, Theresa Christine, James DeCaro and Bill Clymer. 2005. Higher education for Deaf students in the Philippines today: The role of De LaSalle-College of Saint Benilde, the Deaf community, and PEN-International. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :22-32.(translated by Japanese Federation of the Deaf, in Japanese)

Mori, Soya. 2005. The dawn of the Philippine Deaf community : The early years of deaf education for the Deaf in the Philippines. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :12-21.

Martinez, Liza B. PhD. 2005. Filipino sign Language: Understanding the past and looking to the future. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :2-11.

Osugi, Yutaka. 2005. About this issue(Foreword): The movements of Deaf people and their community in Philippine. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 56(2005.06) :1.

Philippine Deaf Resource Center and Philippine Federation of the Deaf. 2004. An Introduction to Filipino Sign Language. Quezon City: Studio Graphics.

Osugi, Yutaka. 2004. The ongoing project on "Practical dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages". In: Sign Language Communication Studies. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 53(2004.09):12-20. [Including information of Asia (general), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam ]

Nakayama, Sinichiro. 2004. Make a Comparison of Word Order between Sign Language and Language for writing : From study about sign language used in Asia and Africa. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 52(2004.06):22-26. [Including information of [ Ghana, Zambia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand ]

Kobayashi, Masayuki． 1999. Deaf in Asia(3) : The Philippines. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 31(1999.03) :81-84.

Martinez, Liza.B. 1995. Turn-taking and eye gaze in sign conversations between Deaf Filipinos. In: Ceil Lucas ed., Sociolinguistics in deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. :272-306.

Martinez, Liza.B. 1995. Filipino Sign Language: may kaugnauyan at kabuluhan ba sa Deaf education? Tan Chi King Professorial Chair Lecture. De La Salle University.

Martinez, Liza.B. 1994. A linguistic study of some aspects of Pilipino Sign Language in Manila and Cebu. Unpublished manuscript. Department of Linguistics and Interpreting. Gallaudet University. Washington D.C.

Martinez, Liza B. 1993. Eye-gaze as an element in Filipino Sign Language discourse. In: Winston, Elisabeth A. ed. Communication forum volume 2. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University, School of Communication. 99-112.

Saulo, Ligaya Gamez. (1990？). Say it with signs: a sign language handbook for Filipinos. Philippine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

Shaneyfelt, Wayne. 1987. Philippine Sign Language. In：J.Van Cleve ed. Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deafness. New York: MacGraw-Hill. 97.

Gorton, L. 1984. A gift of love and language. Deaf education and Peace Corps in the Philippines. In :Salaysayan.(December 1984): 18-20.

1976. People of the Silent World. Philippine Association of the Deaf, Inc. Makati: Philippine

Researchers

History of sign language research

Events

Links

Sign Languages in Asia: Philippines (Data offered by Deaf informants in Philippines; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)

Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Philippines

Fingeralphabete (Philippinen)

Notes