communicated through hand signs. International Sign (previously known as Gestuno) – an auxiliary language used by deaf people in international settings. Makaton – a system of signed communication used by and with people who have speech, language or learning difficulties. Mofu-Gudur Sign Language Monastic sign language Signalong – international sign assisted communication techniques used to support children and adults with communication or learning difficulties Manual modes of spoken languages Manual modes of spoken languages include: General Cued Speech – a hand/mouth system (HMS) to render spoken language phonemes visually intelligible. Fingerspelling – alphabetic signs to represent the written form of a spoken language. English Manually Coded English Signing Exact English (SEE2) Makaton Malay Bahasa Malaysia Kod Tangan (BMKT) Speech-taboo languages Caucasian Sign Language Australian Aboriginal sign languages (though Yolŋu Sign Language does not correspond to any one language, and doubles as a language of the deaf) Genetic classification of sign languages Languages are assigned families (implying a genetic relationships between these languages) as British, Swedish (perhaps a branch of BSL), French (with branches ASL (American), Austro-Hungarian, Danish, Italian), German, Japanese, and language isolates. See also Contact sign Intercultural competence Legal recognition of sign languages List of sign languages by number of native signers Manual alphabet Sign language World Federation of the Deaf References External links Ethnologue – Deaf sign languages Multiple accessible sign languages dictionaries Signes du Monde, directory for all online Sign Languages dictionaries Sign Deaf education