Indigenous signs for cities (alphabetical by country)

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Links updated monthly with the help of LinkAlarm; additions
made as new signs are learned or images found.

Flag: World flag database.

Algeria Argentina Australia Austria Bahrain Belgium Benin
Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Colombia Croatia
Czech Republic Denmark Egypt El Salvador England Ethiopia Finland
France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary India Iraq
Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya
Kuwait Latvia Lebanon Libya Malaysia Mexico Morocco
Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Northern Ireland Norway Oman Philippines
Poland Qatar Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Scotland Singapore Slovenia
South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Syria Switzerland
Taiwan Thailand The Sudan TunisiaUnited Kingdom United Arab Emirates United States
Vietnam Yemen Zimbabwe
List of all sources cited

Berose Vacha, Pradeep Sinha, and Zamir Dhale, personal communications (2003).

Allgemeines Gebärdenlexikon: Oberbegriff Städte in Deutschland.

Belozovsky, A. (1998). Personal communication.

Braiden, S. (1988). Personal communication.

ASL browser.

Brien, D. (ed.) (1992). Dictionary of British Sign Language/English. London: Faber and Faber.

BritishSignLanguage.com.

Croatian Sign Language dictionary.

Derso, T., (1988). Personal communication.

Dictionnaire du langage des signes, Vol. 3. (1985). Liège, Belgium: Massoz s.ahttp://members.aol.com/bartzur (Thanks to Lisa Menard for translating the sign etymologies from the Belgian.)

Hanks, D. S., NZSL interpreter, (2001). Personal communication.

Kelly-Jones, N. and Hamilton, H. (1981). Signs everywhere. Los Alamitos, CA: Modern Signs Press, Inc.

Kronick Shuart, A. (1986) Signs in Judaism: A resource book for the Jewish Deaf community. New York: Bloch Publ. Co.

Lazorisak, C. & A. Lazorisak. International cities & historical signs. To order.

Legoff, P. SourdsNet - Cam Vidéo.

Marchetti, B. (1998). Personal communication, 1998.

Namir, L., Sela, I. Rimor, M. and Schlesinger, I. M. (1979). Dictionary of sign language of the Deaf in Israel. Jerusalem: Ministry of Social Welfare.

Penilla, A.

golden marble bulletAround the globe: Cities in ASL. This presentation will help viewers in the following: Develop a visual understanding of city locations; develop a working knowledge of cities around the world, manually demonstrate an understanding of city name signs, build an understanding of which cities are in which countries. To order.
golden marble bulletAround the globe: Identification strategies. This workshop will address the identification patterns and how countries and cities around the world establish their name signs according to: Domestic identification, internal identification, and national identification. To order.

Reddy, K. (1998). Personal communication.

Savir, C. (ed.) (1992). Gateway to Israeli Sign Language. Tel Aviv: The Association of the Deaf in Israel.

Schwartz, S. (2003). Personal communication.

Signs around the world: Cities [Videotape]. (1990). Burtonsville, MD: Sign Media, Inc.

Singapore Sign Language.

Sutton, J. (1988). personal communication.

Taylor, I. (1990). Personal communication.

TeachASL Resource Center - Country signs - who's do we use?

Woordenboek Nederlands - Vlaamse Gebarentaal.

Yau, S. C. (1977). The Chinese signs: lexicon of the standard sign language for the deaf in China. Hongkong: Chiu Ming Publ Co.

Yin-Chee Goodstadt, R. (1972). Speaking with signs: A sign language manual for Hongkong's Deaf. Hongkong: Government Printer.


More resources for finding indigenous signs may be sought from

Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world.


Image credits

1. World flag database.

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