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6,854 languages with published entries

Sign languages

40 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

  • Albanian Sign Language

    31 published entries

  • Norwegian Sign Language

    24 published entries

  • Hungarian Sign Language

    24 published entries

  • Ethiopian Sign Language

    23 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

  • Catalan Sign Language

    6 published entries

  • Tunisian Sign Language

    6 published entries

  • Russian Sign Language

    5 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

15 words and 0 phrases found.

Middle Cornish

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationship; not yet reviewed by a native speaker.

B
bras
BIG

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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C
conna
NECK

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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coth
OLD

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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F
frygow
NOSE

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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G
ganow
MOUTH

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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H
hanow
NAME

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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K
kyg
MEAT

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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L
lor
MOON

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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M
meneth
MOUNTAIN

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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N
nos
NIGHT

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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nowyth
NEW

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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O
ogas
NEAR

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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onen
ONE

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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T
tor
BELLY

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Y
yn
NARROW

Recorded forms from CLDF dataset derived from Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew’s "Indo-European Cognate Relationships database" ([IE-CoR version 1.0](https://github.com/lexibank/iecor/releases/tag/v1.0)) from 2019. Heggarty, Paul & Anderson, Cormac & Scarborough, Matthew 2024. Indo-European Cognate Relationships database (IE-CoR version 1.1). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13304537. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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