Texas The Catalan manual alphabet is used in Catalan Sign Language. It is one of the oldest manual alphabets still in use. References wikisign.org datilologic alphabet Sign language List of sign languages List by number of signers By region[a] Sign languages by region Oceania Australia: Auslan, Warlpiri, Australian Aboriginal Hawaii New Zealand Solomon Islands: Rennellese Asia Chinese Philippine Indonesia: Indonesian, Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) Indo-Pakistani Israel: Al-Sayyid Bedouin, Israeli Japanese Korean Malaysia: Malaysian, Penang, Selangor Mongolian Nepal: Ghandruk, Jhankot, Jumla, Nepalese Persian Saudi Arabia: Saudi Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thailand: Ban Khor, Thai Vietnamese Africa Algerian Ghana: Adamorobe Kenyan Mali: Tebul Nigeria: Bura, Hausa Senegal: Mbour Somalia & Djibouti: Somali South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian Europe Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish, French Belgian British Croatian Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish France: Lyons, French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kosovar Lithuanian Macedonian Northern Ireland Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spain: Catalan, Spanish, Valencian Swedish Swiss Turkish North America Plains Sign Talk Canada: American, Maritime, Quebec, Inuit, Plateau Mexico: Mayan, Mexican United States: American (Black American), Martha's Vineyard, Plateau, Sandy River Valley, Henniker South America Argentine Bolivian Brasil: Libras, Ka'apor Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guatemalan: Guatemalan, Mayan Honduras Nicaraguan Paraguayan Peruvian Providence Island Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan International International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic Signalong Language families[a] Australian Aboriginal (List) BANZSL (List) Danish (List) French (List) German (List) Japanese (List) Indo-Pakistani (List) Swedish (List) Arab (List) Isolates (List) American Sign Language Grammar Idioms Literature Profanity Name signs Extinct sign languages Martha's Vineyard Old French Old Kent Plateau Sign Language Henniker Sign Language Sandy River Valley Sign Language Rennellese (nearly) Maritime (nearly) Hawaiʻi (nearly) Linguistics Grammar (ASL) Bimodal bilingualism Cherology Handshape, Location, Orientation, Movement, Expression Mouthing Name signs Fingerspelling American British (two-handed) Catalan Chilean French Irish Japanese Korean Polish Russian Serbo-Croatian Spanish Writing ASL-phabet Hamburg Notation System SignWriting Stokoe notation si5s Language contact Contact sign Initialized sign Manually Coded English Manually Coded Malay Mouthing Paget Gorman Sign System Bilingual–bicultural education Media Films (list) Television programmes (list) Persons Jabbar Baghtcheban Johanna Berglind Pär Aron Borg Thomas Braidwood Laurent Clerc Abbé de l'Épée Roger Fouts Valerie Sutton Thomas Gallaudet Abbe Sicard William Stokoe Organisations Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada International Center on Deafness and the Arts Mimics and Gesture Theatre ASL Rose Miscellaneous Baby sign language CHCI chimpanzee center (Washoe, Loulis) Open Outcry Legal recognition Military hand and arm signals Tactile signing Tic-tac (betting) ^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French.