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Sign languages

36 sign languages with signs. Signs are shown in SignWriting, never as notation.

  • British Sign Language

    117 published entries

  • Yugoslavian Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Philippine Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Nicaraguan Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • German Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Czech Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Swiss-French Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Brazilian Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Maltese Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Polish Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • Singapore Sign Language

    60 published entries

  • South African Sign Language

    55 published entries

  • Mexican Sign Language

    54 published entries

  • American Sign Language

    50 published entries

  • Taiwan Sign Language

    48 published entries

  • Quebec Sign Language

    42 published entries

  • Egypt Sign Language

    40 published entries

  • Paraguayan Sign Language

    39 published entries

  • Spanish Sign Language

    33 published entries

  • Norwegian Sign Language

    24 published entries

  • Hungarian Sign Language

    24 published entries

  • French Sign Language

    21 published entries

  • Thai Sign Language

    19 published entries

  • Ho Chi Minh City Sign Language

    16 published entries

  • Japanese Sign Language

    11 published entries

  • Colombian Sign Language

    11 published entries

  • Romanian Sign Language

    11 published entries

  • Korean Sign Language

    9 published entries

  • Peruvian Sign Language

    7 published entries

  • Tunisian Sign Language

    6 published entries

  • New Zealand Sign Language

    5 published entries

  • Italian Sign Language

    5 published entries

  • Swiss-German Sign Language

    5 published entries

  • Saudi Arabian Sign Language

    5 published entries

  • Argentine Sign Language

    4 published entries

  • Adamorobe Sign Language

    2 published entries

  • Albanian Sign Language

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Irish

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Irish
ga[ɡa]
noun
A word for a long, sharp weapon like a spear or dart. It can also refer to a beam of light or a radius in geometry.

“Chuir an cat a gha ann.”

The cat clawed him.

Also means
  1. spear (long stick with a sharp tip), dart
  2. dart, sting
  3. ray (beam of light or radiation)
  4. radius (line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center; length of this segment)
  5. suppository
  6. gaff
  7. spear

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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Irish
gai
noun
An older, no longer used way of spelling the word gae, which means a spear, a dart, or a ray of light.

“B'fhearr an gai ná an claíomh sa chath.”

The spear was better than the sword in the battle.

Also means
  1. obsolete spelling of gae (“spear, dart; ray”)
  2. spear

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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Irish
gar[ɡaɾˠ]
adj
Describes something that is close in distance or time, or someone who is stingy.

“Tá an teach i bhfad i gcéin, níl sé gar.”

The house is far away, it is not near.

Also means
  1. near
  2. short (of time)
  3. convenient; easy, likely
  4. near, mean, stingy

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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Irish
gas[ɡɑsˠ]
noun
The main stem of a plant or a young, growing part of a plant.

“Bhris an gas den bhláth.”

The stalk of the flower broke.

Also means
  1. stalk, stem
  2. sprig, shoot, frond
  3. stripling; scion
  4. stalk

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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Irish
longa[ˈl̪ˠɔŋə]
noun
The plural form of the word long, which means ship.

“Chonaic mé na longa.”

I saw the ships.

Also means
  1. nominative plural of long
  2. vocative plural of long
  3. dative plural of long
  4. ships

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 2 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.

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