BANZSL

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæn.zəl/

Proper noun

BANZSL

1. Acronym of British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language.
   • 2008, Kearsy Cormier, Adam Schembri, Martha E. Tyron, “One Hand or Two? Nativisation of Fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL”, in Sign Language & Linguistics‎^[1], volume 11, number 1, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 3–44:

     Sign languages that have foreign vocabulary based on alphabetic fingerspelled elements include American Sign Language (ASL) […] and the British Sign Language (BSL) family, BANZSL […]

   • 2016 January 5, Genie Gertz, Patrick Boudreault, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 234:

     But when BANZSL and ASL were compared, 44% cognate and 31% identical signs have been observed.

Meronyms

• BSL
• Auslan
• NZSL
• SASL
• MSL
• NISL
• PNGSL