#american languages

[polyglot-thought]

Cherokee Language Meme 😊

#cherokee #cherokee nation #cherokee language #indigenous languages #indigenous language #endangered languages #endangered language #sequoyah #tsalagi gawonihisdi #tsalagi #tsalagihi ayeli #george gist #george guess #ssiquoya #american languages #american indian #native american #native american lore #only 2000 native speakers!!!! #meme

[acrowseye]

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

#ex: united states > south > sodapop #please rb so more people see #american english #australian english #british english #canadian english #english #english language #dialects #accents #american accent #australian accent #british accent #canadian accent #english accent #america #australia #england #canada #those four are my target audience but all answers from around the world are welcome!! #tumblr #discourse #experiment

[magpiedminx]

From Misa on Wheels

#Barbie #Disabled #ASL #american sign language

[quotesfrommyreading]

When I’m out with Deaf friends, I put my hearing aid in my purse. It removes any ability to hear, but far more importantly, it removes the ambiguity that often haunts me.

In a restaurant, we point to the menu and gesture with the wait staff. The servers taking the order respond with gestures too. They pantomime “drinks?” and tell us they learned a bit of signs in kindergarten. Looking a little embarrassed, they sign “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day” in the middle of asking our salad dressing choice. We smile and gently redirect them to the menu. My friends are pros at this routine and ordering is easy ― delightful even. The contrast with how it feels to be out with my hearing husband is stunning.

Once my friends and I have ordered, we sign up a storm, talking about everything and shy about nothing. What would be the point? People are staring anyway. Our language is lavish, our faces alive. My friends discuss the food, but for me, the food is unimportant. I’m feasting on the smorgasbord of communication ― the luxury of chatting in a language that I not only understand 100% but that is a pleasure in and of itself. Taking nothing for granted, I bask in it all, and everything goes swimmingly.

Until I accidentally say the word “soup” out loud.

Pointing at the menu, I let the word slip out to the server. And our delightful meal goes straight downhill. Suddenly, the wait staff’s mouths start flapping; the beautiful, reaching, visual parts of their brains go dead, as if switched off.

“Whadda payu dictorom danu?” the server’s mouth seems to say. “Buddica taluca mariney?”

“No, I’m Deaf,” I say. A friend taps the server and, pointing to her coffee, pantomimes milking a cow. But the damage is done. The server has moved to stand next to me and, with laser-focus, looks only at me. Her pen at the ready, her mouth moves like a fish. With stunning speed, the beauty of the previous interactions ― the pantomiming, the pointing, the cooperative taking of our order ― has disappeared. “Duwanaa disser wida coffee anmik? Or widabeeaw fayuh-mow?”

Austin “Awti” Andrews (who’s a child of Deaf adults, often written as CODA) describes a similar situation.

“Everything was going so well,” he says. “The waiter was gesturing, it was terrific. And then I just said one word, and pow!! It’s like a bullet of stupidity shot straight into the waiter’s head,” he explains by signing a bullet in slow motion, zipping through the air and hitting the waiter’s forehead. Powwwww.

Hearing people might be shocked by this, but Deaf people laugh uproariously, cathartically.

“Damn! All I did was say one word!” I say to my friends. “But why do you do that?” they ask, looking at me with consternation and pity. “Why don’t you just turn your voice off, for once and for all?” they say.

Hearing people would probably think I’m the lucky one ― the success story ― because I can talk. But I agree with my friends.

  —  I'm Deaf And I Have 'Perfect' Speech. Here's Why It's Actually A Nightmare.

#rachel zemach #austin andrews #disability #ableism #deafness #sign language #speech #asl #american sign language

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#asl #American sign language #sign #deaf #hard of hearing

[mayfriend]

a couple years ago, i got really ambitious and decided i was going to make a uquiz. it would be the uquiz to end all uquizzes, it would mean i used my history degree and it would be queer with a capital Q. and to be fair to past me, i did all the questions, had chosen what (or who, in this case) the results would be, and just had to write the bios for those results, which i did half of... and then crashed. two years later, i finally convinced myself to finish it off, so i mostly proudly present the 'which historical gay are you?' uquiz. if your result's bio is a little lacking, thats not because youre boring, it's because i'm chronically ill <3

#uquiz #also apologies that there's a lot of british/american results - i'm a 20something british woman who did history at a british uni #and doesnt speak any language besides english because im really really bad at them #id love to see what you all got <3 #emily speaks #mine #queer #history

[violottie]

from Flyers For Falastin, made by Amal Jamaludin

#sign language #asl #american sign language #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah

[saeiken]

:O ..brothers...

#one piece #luffy #monkey d. luffy #straw hat luffy #portgas d ace #revolutionary sabo #sabo #asl brothers #my art #that second one has been stuck in my head for literal months lol #before i got to marineford ahgjslkg #i have no idea if its been done already or if its even funny but i had to get it out there #the other option is american sign language ofc

[killjoyous]

DSMP asl HCs

AU where Tommy is profoundly deaf and always getting yelled at for being loud, but he claps back with “IM DEAF, SUCK IT UPPP!!!!”

also clarification: Tommy in this au uses ASL but in-universe it’s just generally referred to as ‘sign’ even though I know realistically, it’d probably be BSL. I do not know BSL. 😭 so for my sake he’s using AS Tubbo learned sign language for him, but isn’t fluent yaya. Techno learned his from a book (for tactical reasons because communicating silently and effectively is really useful) but he gets a lot of it wrong. Phil has the same issue of using signed exact English/incorrect motions for signs, but they’re catching up. techno is probably a fucking polyglot so it’s not that big of a problem 😭😭 oh and Ranboo goes nonverbal when overstimulated!! And uses rudimentary sign language to communicate.

#i mean what no these are my OCs trust trust #tommyinnit #tommy innit #tom simons #quackity fanart #dsmp au #dsmp art #dsmp fanart #dsmp #tubbo #tubbo fanart #mcyt #mcyt fanart #tommyinnt fanart #american sign language #asl #deaf

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Today, in “I’ll take any good news I can find”:

A production of Romeo and Juliet with Deaf actors signing their lines has been referred to as bilingual! Not just “accessible” or “diverse” but also BILINGUAL!

This makes me happy because the general idea of ASL (and other signed languages) is that they’re just a manual version of the spoken language. By that logic, Norwegian is just a higher-latitude version of German. Signed languages are languages of their own! With unique vocabulary, grammar, and dialects!

#linguistics #language #language and identity #language and power #language and culture #langblr #asl #american sign language #d/deaf #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #disability #accessibility #wisconsin

[maxinwell]

ASL Fingerspelling + Pride Flags; images read as followed: LGBTQIA+ (L is the lesbian flag, G is the gay male flag, B is the bi flag, T is the trans flag, Q is the rainbow flag, I is the intersex flag, A is the acespec & arospec flags back to back, + is the progress flag), Lesbian & Gay, Fluid (Genderfluid flag colors) & Enby (Nonbinary flag colors), Queer (Queer flag) & AroAce, Pan & Bi, Ace & Aro and Trans.

#my art #lgbtq art #asl #american sign language #lgbtqia+ #lesbian #gay #bisexual #pansexual #transgender #aromantic #asexual #queer #aroace #genderfluid #nonbinary #5k

[polyglot-thought]

[Cherokee->English] Wilma Mankiller 2022 USA Quarter Engraving - Color Coded Translation

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Image from usmint.gov

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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ

tsalagihi ayeli

Cherokee Nation

NOTE: Ꭿ (hi) is a noun suffix which means on/in/into. For example: Julogilv - clouds, Julogilvhi - into the clouds. Cherokee speaker perspectives are super specific so you can get a lot of little nuances or additions to the meaning which doesn't translate super well into English. — from Reddit user u/Amayetli under this post

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Phonetics:

ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ

tsalagihi ayeli

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Please correct me if I made a mistake

#native american #native American language #wilma mankiller #cherokee #cherokee nation #ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ #tsalagi #tsalagihi ayeli #langblr #lingblr #Cherokee language #rare language #dying language #endangered languages #endangered language #minority language #minority languages #american culture #American languages #north american languages #native american culture #USA quarters #american currency #cherokee culture #indigenous languages #indigenous americans #american indian #cherokee tribe #color coded translation #Cherokee to English

[skialdi]

ASL Christmas~❄️

#asl trio #asl brothers #sabo #monkey d luffy #portgas d. ace #ace sabo and Luffy #one piece #one piece fanart #skialdi art #;; my art #they’re doing A S L in ASL heheh hopefully I drew it right #anyway Merry Christmas 🎄 and happy holidays #digital art #anime art #Christmas art #asl #american sign language

[ffcrazy15]

Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.

#This is neither a criticism nor a compliment of that artistic choice #I just think it's really interesting #Like even looking at the Five: #Tigress talks in an older style than the others because she was mainly raised at the Jade Palace #While Mantis talks like Joe-schmo off the street because he *was* a streetfighter and an ordinary guy #Shifu and even Tai Lung talk like they're from an old-fashioned novel or kung fu movie #Po talks like a modern guy you'd meet working in a twenty-first century family restaurant #Part of Tigress's initial disdain for him in the first movie is clearly because she considers him to be low-class/a commoner #(And therefore an intruder into the world of the Jade Palace and the rest of the Kung Fu masters which appears to be semi-noble). #Shen looks genuinely off-put and disgusted when he has to respond to Po's greeting with a “...hey.” #And when Po wants to appear more legitimate as a warrior he adopts a more “legendary”/old-fashioned way of speaking. #In the aesthetic language of KFP old fashioned=noble/upper class and modern=common/lower class. #This translates entirely naturally—I think especially to an American audience—but it is wild once you notice it #Because you realize: “Hang on—shouldn't *all* these characters be talking like they're living in the medieval era?” #“And what does it mean that they're not? What is the movie attempting to convey with this—probably entirely subconscious—artistic choice?” #kung fu panda

[acrowseye]

part 2 of my experiment: what english-speaking country are you from, what region and what do you call the following images? if you don't know what the first image is please try to guess i'd love to see it

#ex: australia > victoria > bread #please rb so more people can see #american english #australian english #british english #canadian english #english #english language #dialects #accents #american accent #australian accent #british accent #canadian accent #english accent #america #australia #england #canada #those four are my target audience but all answers from around the world are welcome!! #tumblr #discourse #experiment #click the link for part one

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

So the members of the discord at @bfpnola were explaining to me why BASL (Black American Sign Language) is a separate language than ASL (American Sign Language) because I was wondering if it was for a similar reason as AAVE (African American Vernacular English).

Fun fact. It's because of segregation. So when Sign Language in America was being taught. The schools were segregated, so they each dealt with deaf accommodations in their own way. White schools were taking a more integration approach so they highly frowned on the use of Sign and they were trying to get deaf kids to practice speaking.

However, Black schools were more opening to the use of Sign, so they had a lot longer to develop their Sign Language than White schools, as they were encouraging Sign at a time when white schools weren't.

Follow and support @bfpnola because they teach me so many things and it is so cool. 😁

-fae

#asl #basl #american sign language #black American Sign Language #deaf #disability