Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: Arab World (الدول العربية)

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Blogs and vlogs Deaf history and current events Deaf sports & recreation Machine interpretation or transcription Notation systems (written and visual representations of Sign Languages)
Religion & Deafness Sign Languages in the Arab World Sign Languages in the Arab World, dictionaries

Blogs and vlogs

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Deaf education & youth

حلول لمشكلة الصم والبكم العرب ... لنعمل معاً من أجل أصم عربي متعلم .. من أجل أصم عربي متميز . . معاً يدأ بيد لنصنع للصم ...

deafy.net. نحن أطفال العالم العربي نريد أن نتعلم لغة الإشارة العربية نريد أن نهزم الإعاقة ونبني مستقبلاً مشرقاً لا يكون فيه شخص أبكم أو أصم فجميعنا نتكلّم وجميعنا نسمع .. ونفهم إنّنا نؤمن أنّنا نستطيع ومن هنا سوف نبدأ مع ديفي سوف نتعلّم أسلوباً جديداً للتّواصل فيما بيننا فامضوا معنا يا أصدقائي وتابعوا موقع الأطفال الأوّل لتعليم لغة الإشارة العربية

Deaf history and current events

Miles, M.

golden marble bulletSigning in the Seraglio: mutes, dwarfs and jestures at the Ottoman Court 1500-1700. Deaf people, known as 'mutes', worked in the Turkish Ottoman court from the fifteenth to the twentieth century in various roles along with dwarfs and other entertainers. Their signing system became popular, was used regularly by hearing people including successive Sultans, and was reportedly capable of expressing ideas of whatever complexity. The Ottoman court mutes' early achievements, at a time when deaf education and employment was barely considered feasible in Western Europe, have been obscured through literary critics' reactions against later travellers' stereotyping of Middle Eastern countries. Detailed, contemporary sixteenth and seventeenth century accounts of the mutes' activities and signing system are collated and appraised by modern linguistic and historiographical criteria.
golden marble bulletSigns of Development in Deaf South & South-West Asia: histories, cultural identities, resistance to cultural imperialism. The revised article offers evidence and hypotheses for a short cultural history of deaf people, culture and sign language in South Asia and South West Asia, using documents from antiquity through 2005. A new appendix shows 110 items on deafness and sign language in the Arab countries of the Eastern Mediterranean and South West Asia.

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Machine interpretation or transcription

Al-Jarrah, O. & Halawani, A. (2001). Recongnition of gestures in Arabic sign Language using neuro-fuzzy systems. The work presented in this paper aims at developing a system for automatic translation of gestures of the manual alphabets in the Arabic sign language.

Assaleh, K. Recognition of Arabic Sign Language alphabet using polynomial classifiers. In this paper, we propose the use of polynomial classifiers as a classification engine for the recognition of Arabic sign language (ArSL) alphabet. Polynomial classifiers have several advantages over other classifiers in that they do not require iterative training, and that they are highly computationally scalable with the number of classes. Based on polynomial classifiers, we have built an ArSL system and measured its performance using real ArSL data collected from deaf people. We show that the proposed system provides superior recognition results when compared with previously published results using ANFIS-based classification on the same dataset and feature extraction methodology. The comparison is shown in terms of the number of misclassified test patterns. The reduction in the rate of misclassified patterns was very significant. In particular, we have achieved a 36% reduction of misclassifications on the training data and 57% on the test data.

Loeding, B. L., Sarkar, S., Parashar, A. & and Karshmer, A. I. (2004). Progress in automated computer recognition of Sign Language.

Notation systems (written and visual representations of Sign Languages)

Seely, T. D. (1996, August 12). SignWriting in Arabic Nations.

Religion & Deafness

السمع ثم البصر ولكننا لم نسمع بأن هناك إنساناً ولد وهو أصم، أو فقد سمعه في سنوات عمره الأولى ثم ارتقى ...

Sign Languages in the Arab World

Al-Fityani, & Padden, C. A. A lexical comparison of sign languages in the arab world. In: Quadros, Ronice M. de (ed): TISLR 9 : Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9 : 9 Congreso International de Aspectos Teóricos das Pesquisas nas Linguas de Sinais. December 6 to 9, 2006 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis, SC Brasil. Florianópolis : Lagoa Editora (2006).

Disability in the Middle East. Has the following entry: Suwed, A. (1983) Abjadiyya ishara alcarabiyya. [Arabic fingerspelling.] Tripoli, Libya: Aldar Alcarabiyya Lilkitab.

Seely, T. D. (1996, August 12). LINGUIST List 7.1131, Disc: Arabic Sign Language.

Sign Languages in the Arab World, dictionaries

Arabic Scout Deaf Sign Language Dictionary. This dictionary is about the arabic scout deaf sign language. It contains more than 400 signs of scouts words and expressions in video.

Suwed, A. Quamus ishari carabi. [Arabic sign language dictionary].

Unified Sign Language Dictionary. Encouraged by the great demand and the local use of the Kuwait sign language dictionary, this dictionary was developed to represent the unified sign language selected by the Arab League. This dictionary has an extra feature which allows the user of having hard copies of the signs.

لغة الاشارة العربية - منتديات نادي ديفي للصم والبكم.

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