The BSL SignBank team is proud to present regional information about a subset of BSL signs for colours, numbers, countries and UK place names, based on the “What’s your sign?” task from the BSL Corpus. Number signs; Colour signs; Country signs; UK place name signs

We invite you all to explore SignBank and the visual language that is British Sign Language (BSL), the language of the Deaf Community in the United Kingdom. BSL dictionary; Fingerspelling; Videos of Deaf people using BSL; Information on the Deaf Community in the UK; BSL learning resources

Please choose a region: You will then be able to choose an activity and age group to view the videos.

BSL, or British Sign Language, is the primary sign language used by the deaf and hard-of-hearing community in the UK. However, it is important to note that there can be regional variations in the way BSL is signed, particularly in different parts of the country.

2018年1月4日 · British Sign Language (BSL) is the language used by the deaf community in the UK. In this chapter, we describe sociolinguistic variation and change in BSL varieties in...

You can test your knowledge and receptive skills of BSL colours, place names around the UK and countries with the BSL Signbank Quiz. Research suggests that BSL signs are changing and we are losing the regional variations of some signs, including colours.

2015年5月14日 · Arguments, disagreements and cross words occur regularly, all because one region uses a different sign to another, or because one person understands the need for translation of meaning rather than translation of a single English word.

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL, together with background information about the signers and written descriptions of the signing in ELAN.

BSL exhibits considerable regional lexical variation. Results from previous studies suggest that there has been a reduction in regional differences since the introduction of BSL on television (Woll et al., 1991) and increased regional contact (Woll,

Choose a country on the left, and you will see the range of BSL sign variants (also frequencies and regional distributions) for that country produced in the “What’s your sign?” task from the BSL Corpus.