Welcome to my page on sign languages around the world!
On this page, you will find a wealth of online resources to help you learn more about sign languages from around the globe. The links are organized by sign language, so you can easily find what you're looking for.
Included on this page are links to dictionaries, courses, and other online resources to help you learn more about sign languages. Whether you're a beginner just starting out, a native sign language speaker, or a sign language interpreter looking to expand your knowledge, you'll find something here to help you. The resources are primarily in English, but some are in other languages, such as Spanish.
I hope you find these resources useful. Please contribute to the list by suggesting any additional resources you come across. If you know of any useful links that I've missed, please let me know so I can add them to the page.
- General resources
- Multilingual dictionaries
- American Sign Language (ASL)
- Australian Sign Language (Auslan)
- British Sign Language (BSL)
- Costa Rican Sign Language (Lengua de señas costarricense, LESCO)
- Dutch Sign Language (Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT)
- French Sign Language (Langue des Signes Française, LSF)
- German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS)
- Israeli Sign Language (שפת הסימנים הישראלית, שס"י)
- Mexican Sign Language (Lengua de señas mexicana, LSM)
- New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)
- Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de signos española, LSE)
- Swedish Sign Language (Svenskt teckenspråk, STS)
- The interpreter's friend - information about sign languages, interpreting, etc.
- Cultura Sorda - articles and materials about sign languages and the Deaf culture in general (mainly in Spanish)
- SIGNApuntes - notes about sign languages and related themes. In Spanish.
- The Sign Language Dataset Compendium - University of Hamburg overview of sign language corpora and lexical resources, searchable by language
- Sign Language Processing - survey of computational research on sign languages (datasets, recognition, translation, notation systems)
- Spread the Sign – multilingual video dictionary in several sign languages (mainly European)
- Sématos - multilingual video dictionary in five sign languages: Catalan (LSC), Spanish (LSE), French (LSF), German (DGS) and International Sign Language (ISL)
- Asian SignBank - video dictionary for several Asian sign languages
- Signing Savvy – video dictionary
- Handspeak - dictionary (including a reverse dictionary: look up a sign to find its meaning), lessons, and articles on ASL and Deaf culture
- ASL Signbank - lexical database of ASL signs (University of Connecticut and Gallaudet University), built for corpus annotation; most signs are publicly browsable
- ASL University (LifePrint) - course and resources about ASL and Deaf culture
- https://asl.ms – fingerspelling tutorial
- https://asl.bz/ - numbers tutorial
- Fingerspell.net - receptive fingerspelling practice (flashcards)
- ASL-LEX - interactive visualization of the ASL lexicon as a graph (each node represents a sign, and each edge connects two phonologically related signs)
- Auslan SignBank - video dictionary. The site also includes information about Auslan, the Deaf community and its history.
- SignBSL - video dictionary
- BSL SignBank - usage-based dictionary based on the BSL Corpus, with regional variants and search by handshape and location (UCL)
- BSL Corpus Project - a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL
- BSL Glossaries of Curriculum Terms - BSL glossaries of curriculum terms (astronomy, biology, mathematics, etc.)
- LumoTV (formerly BSL Zone) - TV programmes made in BSL (dramas, documentaries, entertainment, etc.)
- https://lesco.cenarec.go.cr/ - dictionary, grammar and general information about LESCO (in Spanish)
- Global Signbank - lexical database of NGT signs (also hosts datasets for other sign languages), linked to the Corpus NGT
- Corpus NGT - searchable corpus of NGT conversations and narratives from signers across the Netherlands (in Dutch)
- Wikisign - wiki video dictionary (in French) (no longer updated)
- Elix - collaborative French/LSF video dictionary with definitions signed in LSF (in French)
- SignDict - video dictionary, +5,000 signs (in German and English)
- IDGS - Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf, University of Hamburg
- DGS-Korpus - The DGS Corpus project (in German and English)
- MEINE DGS - public portal of the DGS Corpus: ~50 hours of conversations and stories in DGS with German subtitles
- Sign2MINT - DGS dictionary of technical signs for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM/MINT) (in German)
- The Corpus of Israeli Sign Language - The ISL Corpus Project
- Sign Language Research Lab - University of Haifa
- Manos con voz (download page for the PDF file) - Dictionary of Mexican Sign Language - by CONAPRED (In Spanish)
- The Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language - video dictionary (can be searched by English or Maori keywords)
- TeachSign - portal of resources for NZSL learners
- CNLSE (Centro de Normalización Lingüística de la Lengua de Signos Española) - Centre for the Language Normalization of the Spanish Sign Language (In Spanish, LSE, English and International Sign)
- Svenskt teckenspråkslexikon - video dictionary by Stockholm University, searchable by word, handshape, location and topic (in Swedish)
- STS-korpus - searchable, annotated corpus of Swedish Sign Language (Stockholm University) (in Swedish)