#dictionaries
There is now a publicly accessible signbank for American Sign Language (ASL)!
You can search for ASL signs by using English key words, and if you create an account you can get more information about each of the signs. This video from the site gives some more information:
The ASLSignbank joins similar websites for other signed languages, including:
The Signbank is essentially a dictionary of signs for each of the languages. Each website was set up by a different team at a different time, and have slightly different layouts and functions.
You can see that there are some signs that are similar across languages, e.g. the sign for tree in ASLandBSL looks similar to each other, but different to Auslan, while the sign for dog is different in all three (ASL,BSL,Auslan).
Just as any other dictionary won’t teach you about how to stick words together to make sentences, these Signbanks won’t teach you the grammar of each of these languages - but if you’re learning ASL, BSL or Auslan they’re a great way to look up vocabulary!
Reference
Hochgesang, Julie A., Onno Crasborn & Diane Lillo-Martin. (2018) ASL Signbank. New Haven, CT: Haskins Lab, Yale University. https://aslsignbank.haskins.yale.edu/
Fellow Andrew Keener searched through annotated dictionaries, language manuals, plays from Renaissance England to learn about multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England.
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So I uh, like reading dictionaries, and I happened to find this in an ASL dictionary, and
