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Name: American Sign Language Type: Language Alternate Names: ASL; Ameslan Number of speakers: No accurate census figures available that distinguish language use from audiological deafness. Reportedly third largest language in USA (1993 Honolulu Advertiser); has 100,000 to 500,000 primary users (VanCleve 1986) out of nearly 2,000,000 profoundly deaf persons in the USA (1988), Below 1% of USA population (Ethnologue) Code: ase Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Sign Languages Parent Subgroup: North American Deaf Sign Languages; North American Sign Language (ndsl) Child Dialects: Black American Sign Language (ase-bla) Tactile Sign Language (ase-tal)