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Name signs in Danish Sign Language

07/02/201801/02/2018 by Julie Bakken Jepsen
Danish SL Figure 1 Danish sign^language

A name sign is a personal sign assigned to deaf, hearing impaired and hearing persons who enter the deaf community. The mouth action accompanying the sign reproduces all or part of the formal first name that the person has received by baptism or naming. Name signs can be compared to … ↪

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