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Meaning of "Ameslan" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AMESLAN

From Ame( rican) s( ign) lan( guage).
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PRONUNCIATION OF AMESLAN

Ameslan  [ˈæməsˌlæn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMESLAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ameslan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AMESLAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ameslan

American Sign Language

American Sign Language is the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and English-speaking parts of Canada. Besides North America, dialects of ASL and ASL-based creoles are used in many countries around the world, including much of West Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. ASL is also widely learned as a second language, serving as a lingua franca. ASL is most closely related to French Sign Language. It has been proposed that ASL is a creole language, although ASL shows features atypical of creole languages, such as agglutinative morphology. ASL originated in the early 19th century in the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, from a situation of language contact. Since then, ASL use propagated widely via schools for the deaf and deaf community organizations. Despite its wide use, no accurate count of ASL users has been taken, though reliable estimates for American ASL users range from 250,000 to 500,000 persons, including a number of children of deaf adults.

Definition of Ameslan in the English dictionary

The definition of Ameslan in the dictionary is American sign language: a language in which meaning is conveyed by hand gestures and their position in relation to the upper part of the body ASL.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMESLAN


Acrilan
ˈækrɪˌlæn
Catalan
ˈkætəˌlæn
Celan
ˈsɛlæn
clan
klæn
flan
flæn
gamelan
ˈɡæmɪˌlæn
hyalomelan
ˌhaɪəˈlɒməˌlæn
jambolan
ˈdjæmbəˌlæn
Klan
klæn
melphalan
ˈmelfəˌlæn
Milan
mɪˈlæn
plan
plæn
portolan
ˈpɔːtəˌlæn
rataplan
ˌrætəˈplæn
replan
riːˈplæn
tolan
ˈtəʊlæn
xylan
ˈzaɪlæn
yulan
ˈjuːlæn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMESLAN

Americanized
Americanizer
Americano
Americas
americium
Amerigo Vespucci
Amerind
Amerindian
Amerindic
Amersfoort
Ames test
amesace
ametabolic
ametabolism
ametabolous
amethyst
amethystine
ametropia
ametropic
Amex

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMESLAN

action plan
Alan
Basilan
Beslan
business plan
Dylan
Five-Year Plan
floor plan
Guatemalan
hallan
Macmillan
Magellan
master plan
McMillan
Nolan
open-plan
ortolan
raglan
ulan
Venezuelan

Synonyms and antonyms of Ameslan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Ameslan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AMESLAN

Find out the translation of Ameslan to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Ameslan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Ameslan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Ameslan
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ameslan
570 millions of speakers

English

Ameslan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Ameslan
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

Ameslan
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ameslan
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ameslan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Ameslan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Ameslan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ameslan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ameslan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Ameslan
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Ameslan
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ameslan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Ameslan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Ameslan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Ameslan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ameslan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Ameslan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Ameslan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Ameslan
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Ameslan
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Ameslan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Ameslan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Ameslan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Ameslan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Ameslan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMESLAN»

The term «Ameslan» is used very little and occupies the 176.208 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AMESLAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Ameslan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMESLAN»

Discover the use of Ameslan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Ameslan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Principles Of Comparative Psychology
Training gramme, in which several young chimpanzees were trained in Ameslan chimpanzees I0 together, by native Ameslan speakers. This became known as the Oklause SymbOIlc homa colony (Fouts, 1972). language Terrace (1979) ...
Nicky Hayes, Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes, 2014
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Animal Learning and Cognition: An Introduction
Just as spoken words can be broken down into one or more units, phonemes, so words in Ameslan are constructed from a combination of one or more gestures, cheremes. Each chereme consists of a configuration of the hands placed in a ...
John M. Pearce, 1997
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Neuropsychological Studies of Apraxia and Related Disorders
The other is a hypothetical example dealing with the use of Ameslan (American sign language). For producing Ameslan, a movement concept system for gestures of the arms and hands replaces the phonological system of English for gestures ...
E.A. Roy, 1985
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The Wild Boy of Aveyron
Contrast English and Ameslan in this light. First, how are the smallest meaningful units constructed? The English speaker strings vowels and consonants out sequentially in order to make a word. In the process of articulating the sounds, ...
Harlan Lane, 1976
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Deafness and Child Development
Parents who use Ameslan as their "native" or first language are with rare exception deaf themselves. Not all deaf parents use Ameslan to communicate with their deaf children, however. Some use only or mostly spoken English as their primary ...
Kathryn P. Meadow-Orlans, 1980
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English for the Teacher: A Language Development Course
But the conversations are in fact very remarkable. They took place between two chimpanzees who communicated with one another using the language 'Ameslan' . Ameslan is a sign language for the deaf. Each gesture in Ameslan is made up ...
Mary Spratt, 1994
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Animal Learning and Cognition, 3rd Edition: An Introduction
In fact, Washoe was taught Ameslan, which is the principal method for conversation among deaf people in North America. Just as spoken words can be broken down into one or more units—phonemes—so words in Ameslan are constructed ...
John M. Pearce, 2013
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Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of ...
ethological signaling systems, the chimpanzee is also a model in a fourth way in a post-war western world obsessed with communication: in the use of American Sign Language (AMESLAN) to converse with human beings and other apes.
Donna J. Haraway, 2013
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Behavioral Primatology: Advances in Research and Theory
The last of these studies by Fouts (1974) provides an impressive demonstration of how language mediates the acquisition of new information—in this instance, the meanings of words. Ally, a three-year-old Ameslan—trained chimpanzee, was ...
A. M. Schrier, 2013
10
The Essential Mary Midgley
The facts are briefly these.16 Between 1966, when she was a year old, and 1971, a chimp called Washoe was taught a sign language called Ameslan, commonly used by the deaf-and-dumb and consisting of hand gestures, roughly speaking ...
Mary Midgley, David Midgley, 2005

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMESLAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Ameslan is used in the context of the following news items.
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Listening to the language of apes
This spawned a whole area of new research based on teaching sign language, specifically Ameslan, the American version of signing. This was ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
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'Chappie' Review: Pete Hammond Says This Robot Is A Heavy …
... and 2) I'd followed with great interest the psychological studies 1960s-1980s teaching primates AMESLAN and thru that to conceptualize. «Deadline.com, Mar 15»
3
English-speaking apes
She decided to teach the Koko American Sign Language (ASL) or Ameslan. Within a few weeks, Koko showed remarkable skill with sign ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Nov 03»

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