South Asian Studies, Vol 33, No 2 (2018)

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A Roadmap to Elevate Pakistan Sign Language among Regional Sign Languages

Kamran Abid, Nabeel Sabir Khan, Uzma Farooq, Muhammad Shoaib Farooq, Muhammad Azhar Naeem, Adnan Abid

Abstract


Several nations have worked hard to make their societies truly inclusive by developing gadgets, tools, services, and applications. A lot of work has been done for bringing the deaf community to the mainstream. Tools and applications exist for several sign languages including American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese Sign Language (CSL), Indian Sign Language (ISL) and Arabic Sign Language (ArSL). These tools help translating natural language text into respective sign language and vice versa. Similarly, standard corpora exist for all afore-mentioned sign languages and for many other languages. Unfortunately, no such noticeable development exists in the case of Pakistan Sign Language (PSL). This research aims to define a roadmap for the development of Pakistan Sign Language so as to bring it at par with other sign languages of the world. 

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