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'''Ukrainian Sign Language (USL)''' ({{lang-uk|Українська жестова мова (УЖМ)}}) is the ] of the ] community of ].<ref name="e18">{{e18|ukl}}</ref> Ukrainian Sign Language belongs to the ]. Worldwide awareness of Ukrainian Sign Language rose sharply in 2014 after the release of a Ukrainian film ], where actors communicated in Ukrainian Sign Language with no spoken dialogue.<ref> - SLFirst Deaf Magazine, 29th April 2015</ref><ref> - Film Comment, June 19, 2015</ref><ref> - Nola.com, April 28, 2015</ref><ref> – Vice, January 14, 2015</ref><ref> – Ukie Daily, June 17, 2015</ref><ref>http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/all-sign-language-no-subtitles-behind-the-ukrainian-thriller All Sign Language, No Subtitles: Behind the Ukrainian Thriller That’s Changing How We Experience Cinema] – Yes Magazine, Jul 17, 2015</ref> '''Ukrainian Sign Language (USL)''' ({{langx|uk|Українська жестова мова (УЖМ)|translit=Ukrayinska zhestova mova (UZhM)}}) is the ] of the ] community of ].<ref name="e18">{{e18|ukl}}</ref> Ukrainian Sign Language belongs to the ].{{Citation needed|date=August 2022|reason=Glottolog claims that it's an RSLic language, and that the RSLic language family isn't related to Francosign}} Worldwide awareness of Ukrainian Sign Language rose sharply in 2014 after the release of a Ukrainian film '']'', where actors communicated in Ukrainian Sign Language with no spoken dialogue.<ref> - SLFirst Deaf Magazine, 29 April 2015</ref><ref> - Film Comment, 19 June 2015</ref><ref> - Nola.com, April 28, 2015</ref><ref> – Vice, 14 January 2015</ref><ref> – Ukie Daily, 17 June 2015</ref><ref> – Yes Magazine, Jul 17, 2015</ref>


==History and education== ==History and education==
The teaching of Ukrainian Sign Language to deaf students began in the early 1800s,<ref name="ref5" /> when a number of branches of the ] School for the Deaf were opened in Ukraine, namely the Institute for Deaf in ] in 1805<ref name="ref5"> - / ''Kyl'bida Svitlana Viktorivna. Theoretic & Methodological Concepts of Using Sign Language in Educating Deaf. Summary of a Phd Thesis in Pedagogical Sciences. Kyiv - 2010. Institute of Special Education of the ], p 10'' {{ref-uk}}</ref> in ],<ref name="ref5" /><ref name="ref1">] of the ]. Kyiv, 2005] {{ref-uk}}</ref> then the ] School for the Deaf in 1830 in ]<ref name="ref5" /><ref> - The Ukrainian Weekly, #31, August 1, 2010</ref> and a few years later the Odesa School for the Deaf in 1843 in ].<ref name="ref5" /><ref name="ref1" /> The teaching of Ukrainian Sign Language to deaf students began in the early 1800s,<ref name="ref5" /> when a number of branches of the ] School for the Deaf were opened in Ukraine, namely the Institute for Deaf in ] in 1805<ref name="ref5"> - / ''Kyl'bida Svitlana Viktorivna. Theoretic & Methodological Concepts of Using Sign Language in Educating Deaf. Summary of a Phd Thesis in Pedagogical Sciences. Kyiv - 2010. Institute of Special Education of the ], p 10'' {{in lang|uk}}</ref> in ],<ref name="ref5" /><ref name="ref1"> {{in lang|uk}}</ref> then the ] School for the Deaf in 1830 in ]<ref name="ref5" /><ref> - The Ukrainian Weekly, #31, 1 August 2010</ref> and a few years later the Odesa School for the Deaf in 1843 in ].<ref name="ref5" /><ref name="ref1" />


During the ], the development of teaching methods for Ukrainian sign language slowed down considerably, since the use of Ukrainian sign language in educational systems of the USSR was banned<ref name="Alberta"> - ], Express News. May 8, 2007</ref> soon after the negative feedback given by Joseph Stalin to sign languages in his 1950 article ]. In it, Stalin called deaf people ''"anomalous human beings"'' and described gesture language as ''"not a language at all, but a surrogate"''.<ref name="Kobel"> - retrieved from ]</ref><ref> - International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation, Volume 14, No. 1; ISSN 1703-3381</ref> During the Soviet occupation of Ukraine, the development of teaching methods for Ukrainian sign language slowed down considerably, since the use of Ukrainian sign language in educational systems of the USSR was banned<ref name="Alberta"> - ], Express News. 8 May 2007</ref> soon after the negative feedback given by Joseph Stalin to sign languages in his 1950 article ]. In it, Stalin called deaf people "anomalous human beings" and described gesture language as "not a language at all, but a surrogate".<ref name="Kobel"> - retrieved from ]</ref><ref> - International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation, Volume 14, No. 1; ISSN 1703-3381</ref>


The use of Ukrainian sign language in educating deaf people in Ukraine didn't get reintroduced until 2006.<ref> - Lambert Academic Publishing, {{ISBN|978-3659577727}} retrieved on 2.24.2016</ref> As of January 1, 2015 there were 39 preschools for deaf children in Ukraine teaching preschoolers (6 years or younger);<ref name="UTOG" /> there were 61 specialized secondary ] teaching deaf pupils ages 6 through 18 (this includes both day-time schools and boarding schools). However, most schools emphasize oral proficiency in Ukrainian and do not encourage use of USL.<ref name="UTOG" /> The use of Ukrainian sign language in educating deaf people in Ukraine didn't get reintroduced until 2006.<ref> - Lambert Academic Publishing, {{ISBN|978-3659577727}} retrieved on 2.24.2016</ref> {{as of|2015|January|1}}, there were 39 preschools for deaf children in Ukraine teaching pre-schoolers (6 years or younger);<ref name="UTOG" /> there were 61 specialized secondary ] teaching deaf pupils ages 6 through 18 (this includes both day-time schools and boarding schools). However, most schools emphasize oral proficiency in Ukrainian and do not encourage use of USL.<ref name="UTOG" />


From 2006-2016 the governing body that publishes language textbooks and research articles and regulates the methods of teaching Ukrainian sign language<ref> {{ref-uk}}</ref> was the Laboratory of sign language at the Institute of Special Education of ].<ref name="NAES" /> It was established in 2006.<ref> - retrieved on 2.23.2016 {{ref-uk}}</ref><ref> // Svitlana Kulbida. Issues of upbringing and teaching in the context ofmodern conditions of objective complication of the person’s social adaptation processes. Peer-reviewed materials digest (collective monograph) published following the results of the CXXXVIII International Research and Practice Conferenceand I stage of the Championship in Psychology and Educational sciences (London, February 9- February 15, 2017). pp 26–28</ref> In 2016 it was reorganized into ''Department of sign language'' at the Institute of Special Education of ].<ref> // Наше життя, 03/03/2016 {{ref-uk}}</ref> From 2006 to 2016, the governing body that publishes language textbooks and research articles and regulates the methods of teaching Ukrainian sign language<ref> {{in lang|uk}}</ref> was the Laboratory of sign language at the Institute of Special Education of ].<ref name="NAES"> - Sign Language Research Laboratory {{in lang|uk}}</ref> It was established in 2006.<ref> - retrieved on 2.23.2016 {{in lang|uk}}</ref><ref> // Svitlana Kulbida. Issues of upbringing and teaching in the context ofmodern conditions of objective complication of the person’s social adaptation processes. Peer-reviewed materials digest (collective monograph) published following the results of the CXXXVIII International Research and Practice Conferenceand I stage of the Championship in Psychology and Educational sciences (London, February 9- February 15, 2017). pp 26–28</ref> In 2016 it was reorganized into the Department of Sign Language at the Institute of Special Education of ].<ref> // Наше життя, 03/03/2016 {{in lang|uk}}</ref>

Since the ] of February 2022, the expert committee at the Ukrainian Society of the Deaf has been working to ] Ukrainian Sign Language and ], eradicating Russianisms and other Russian influences that were forcibly imposed in the Soviet period and reconstructing historical signs, developing new signs and fingerspelling, and adopting international gestures.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khrebet |first=Alexander |date=2023-11-24 |title=‘Flicking’ away Russia: Ukrainians de-Russify sign language |url=https://kyivindependent.com/flicking-away-russia-ukrainians-de-russify-sign-language/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}</ref>


== NGOs == == NGOs ==
The "Ukrainian Society of the Deaf" ({{lang-uk|Українське товариство глухих, УТОГ}}, UTOG) was established in 1933, and since 1959 has been a permanent member of the ] (WFD) as well as a member of the WFD Eastern Europe and Middle Asia Regional Secretariat. UTOG was established as an organization of Ukrainians with hearing impairments, both deaf and hearing-impaired ones, to provide them with assistance in their professional, labor and social rehabilitation, in protecting their lawful rights and interests and in asserting themselves as citizens that are fully integrated into society. Excluding hearing impaired in the temporarily ] and ], there were 43,108 registered Ukrainian nationals with hearing impairments as of January 1, 2015, of whom 38,746 persons are members of UTOG (approximately 90%).<ref name="UTOG"> - UN Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner, retrieved on 2.23.2016</ref> The ] ({{langx|uk|Українське товариство глухих, УТОГ}}, UTOG) was established in 1933, and since 1957 has been a permanent member of the ] (WFD) as well as a member of the WFD Eastern Europe and Middle Asia Regional Secretariat. UTOG was established as an organization of Ukrainians with hearing impairments, both deaf and hearing-impaired ones, to provide them with assistance in their professional, labor and social rehabilitation, in protecting their lawful rights and interests and in asserting themselves as citizens that are fully integrated into society. Excluding hearing impaired in the temporarily ] and ], there were 43,108 registered Ukrainian nationals with hearing impairments {{as of|2015|January|1|lc=y}}, of whom 38,746 persons are members of UTOG (approximately 90%).<ref name="UTOG"> - UN Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner, retrieved on 2.23.2016</ref>


== USL Research == == USL research ==
=== Ukrainian Sign Language Project ===
In 2007 Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness at the ] established the Ukrainian Sign Language Project,<ref name="Alberta" /> headed by Dr. Debra Russell, to support the recognition of USL as the language of instruction for Deaf children in Ukraine. Its outcomes were projected to document USL, create a USL teaching curriculum for teacher education and parents of Deaf children, formalize the training of interpreters, and improve the training of teachers of the Deaf.<ref> - University of Alberta, David Peikoff Chair of Deaf Studies & Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness (WCCSD)</ref> In 2007, the Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness at the ] established the Ukrainian Sign Language Project,<ref name="Alberta" /> headed by Dr. Debra Russell, to support the recognition of USL as the language of instruction for Deaf children in Ukraine. Its outcomes were projected to document USL, create a USL teaching curriculum for teacher education and parents of Deaf children, formalize the training of interpreters, and improve the training of teachers of the Deaf.<ref> - University of Alberta, David Peikoff Chair of Deaf Studies & Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness (WCCSD)</ref>


=== Relationship between USL and RSL/MSL === === Comparative linguistics studies ===
One study is suggestive of some sort of relationship between USL and the sign languages of Russia and Moldova, but does not provide any conclusive evidence as to whether they are the same or different languages. In a 2005 study of Eastern European signed languages, a wordlist from Ukrainian Sign Language had about 70% similarity to wordlists from Russian Sign Language and Moldovan Sign Language. Noting that these three SLs had as high a lexical similarity as what was ''"found within certain countries, although not as high as what was found within ]",''<ref name="Bickford_33">Bickford, 2005. </ref> the author recommended that ''"these countries should be investigated further to see how much difference there is between them: whether they represent different dialects of the same language or closely-related languages,"''<ref>Bickford, 2005. </ref> and that future, more detailed, study should ''"use more precise measures such as intelligibility testing, rather than relying on wordlist comparisons alone."''<ref name="Bickford_33" /> The study's closing remarks warn against inappropriate interpretation of the results, noting that ''"a preliminary survey of this sort is not meant to provide definitive results about the relatedness or identity of different languages. Besides the various caveats mentioned above, another important factor is that lexical similarity is only one facet of what is involved in comparing languages. Grammatical structure and other differences can be just as significant; two languages can have very similar vocabulary but enough other differences to make it difficult for people to communicate with each other."''.<ref>Bickford, 2005. </ref> One 2005 study is suggestive of some sort of relationship between USL, ] (RSL), and Moldovan Sign Language (MSL), but does not provide any conclusive evidence as to whether they are the same or different languages. In a 2005 study of Eastern European signed languages, a wordlist from Ukrainian Sign Language had about 70% similarity to wordlists from Russian Sign Language and Moldovan Sign Language. Noting that these three SLs had as high a lexical similarity as what was "found within certain countries, although not as high as what was found within ]",{{sfn|Bickford|2005|p=33}} the author recommended that "these countries should be investigated further to see how much difference there is between them: whether they represent different dialects of the same language or closely-related languages,"{{sfn|Bickford|2005|p=29}} and that future, more detailed, study should "use more precise measures such as intelligibility testing, rather than relying on wordlist comparisons alone."{{sfn|Bickford|2005|p=33}} The study's closing remarks warn against inappropriate interpretation of the results, noting that "a preliminary survey of this sort is not meant to provide definitive results about the relatedness or identity of different languages. Besides the various caveats mentioned above, another important factor is that lexical similarity is only one facet of what is involved in comparing languages. Grammatical structure and other differences can be just as significant; two languages can have very similar vocabulary but enough other differences to make it difficult for people to communicate with each other."{{sfn|Bickford|2005|p=32}}


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==Relevant Literature== ==Relevant literature==
* {{Cite book |last1=Bickford |first1=J. Albert |date=2005 |title=The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe |url=http://www-01.sil.org/silesr/2005/silesr2005-026.pdf |location= |publisher=SIL International and University of North Dakota |pages=45 |isbn= |access-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222001926/http://www-01.sil.org/silesr/2005/silesr2005-026.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014}}
* Lukyanova, S. P. (2001). ''Деякі аспекти розвитку нечуючих / Some issues in the development of nonhearing persons.'' Proceedings of the First Ukrainian Conference on the History of Deaf Education in Ukraine (pp.&nbsp;216–218). Kyiv: UTOG {{ref-uk}}
* Russell, D. (2008). ''Ukrainian signed language: Bridging research and educational practice.'' Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference: The Ukrainian Diaspora in the Global Context Lʹviv. 2008. 277 pp. (p.&nbsp;258 – 259).<ref> 2008. {{ISBN|966-553-512-9}} {{ref-uk}} {{ref-en}}</ref> * Lukyanova, S. P. (2001). ''Деякі аспекти розвитку нечуючих / Some issues in the development of nonhearing persons.'' Proceedings of the First Ukrainian Conference on the History of Deaf Education in Ukraine (pp.&nbsp;216–218). Kyiv: UTOG {{in lang|uk}}
* Russell, D. (2008). ''Ukrainian signed language: Bridging research and educational practice.'' Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference: The Ukrainian Diaspora in the Global Context Lʹviv. 2008. 277 pp. (p.&nbsp;258 – 259).<ref> 2008. {{ISBN|966-553-512-9}} {{in lang|uk|en}}</ref>
* Kobel, I. (2009). ''Ukrainian hearing parents and their deaf children'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of Alberta)] 233 pp.<ref> 233 pp.</ref> * {{Cite thesis |last1=Kobel |first1=Ihor |date=2009 |title=Ukrainian hearing parents and their deaf children |url=https://era.library.ualberta.ca/downloads/7w62f8676 |type=doctoral dissertation |location=Edmonton |publisher=] |pages=233 |access-date=18 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225072858/https://era.library.ualberta.ca/downloads/7w62f8676 |archive-date=25 February 2016}}
* Kulbida, S. V. (2009) ''"Ukrainian sign language as a natural notation system."'' scientific journal «Sign language and modern»: К.: Pedagogicha dumka (2009): 218-239. * Kulbida, S. V. (2009) ''"Ukrainian sign language as a natural notation system."'' scientific journal «Sign language and modern»: К.: Pedagogicha dumka (2009): 218–239.
* Krivonos, Yu G., et al. (2009) ''"Information technology for Ukrainian sign language simulation."'' Artificial Intelligence 3 (2009): 186-198. * Krivonos, Yu G., et al. (2009) ''"Information technology for Ukrainian sign language simulation."'' Artificial Intelligence 3 (2009): 186–198.
* Davydov, M. V., I. V. Nikolski, and V. V. Pasichnyk. (2010) ''"Real-time Ukrainian sign language recognition system."'' Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on. Vol. 1. IEEE, 2010. * Davydov, M. V., I. V. Nikolski, and V. V. Pasichnyk. (2010) ''"Real-time Ukrainian sign language recognition system."'' Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on. Vol. 1. IEEE, 2010.
* Davydov, M. V., et al. (2013) ''"Providing Feedback in Ukrainian Sign Language Tutoring Software."'' Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems-Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 241-261. * Davydov, M. V., et al. (2013) ''"Providing Feedback in Ukrainian Sign Language Tutoring Software."'' Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems-Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 241–261.


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
* ] at the Institute of Special Education of {{ref-uk}} * at the Institute of Special Education of ] {{in lang|uk}}
* {{ref-uk}} * {{in lang|uk}}
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* at the ], (2007-2011) * at the ], (2007–2011)
* ] sign languages catalog] * at ] sign languages catalog
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* – Open Language Archives * – Open Language Archives
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Sign language used in Ukraine

Ukrainian Sign Language
Native toUkraine
Native speakers54,000 (2008)
Language familyFrench Sign
Official status
Regulated byDepartment of Sign Language Education at the Institute of Special Education of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine
Language codes
ISO 639-3ukl
Glottologukra1235

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL) (Ukrainian: Українська жестова мова (УЖМ), romanized: Ukrayinska zhestova mova (UZhM)) is the sign language of the deaf community of Ukraine. Ukrainian Sign Language belongs to the family of French sign languages. Worldwide awareness of Ukrainian Sign Language rose sharply in 2014 after the release of a Ukrainian film The Tribe, where actors communicated in Ukrainian Sign Language with no spoken dialogue.

History and education

The teaching of Ukrainian Sign Language to deaf students began in the early 1800s, when a number of branches of the Vienna School for the Deaf were opened in Ukraine, namely the Institute for Deaf in Volyn in 1805 in Romaniv, then the Halychyna School for the Deaf in 1830 in Lviv and a few years later the Odesa School for the Deaf in 1843 in Odesa.

During the Soviet occupation of Ukraine, the development of teaching methods for Ukrainian sign language slowed down considerably, since the use of Ukrainian sign language in educational systems of the USSR was banned soon after the negative feedback given by Joseph Stalin to sign languages in his 1950 article Marxism and Problems of Linguistics. In it, Stalin called deaf people "anomalous human beings" and described gesture language as "not a language at all, but a surrogate".

The use of Ukrainian sign language in educating deaf people in Ukraine didn't get reintroduced until 2006. As of 1 January 2015, there were 39 preschools for deaf children in Ukraine teaching pre-schoolers (6 years or younger); there were 61 specialized secondary schools for children with hearing impairments teaching deaf pupils ages 6 through 18 (this includes both day-time schools and boarding schools). However, most schools emphasize oral proficiency in Ukrainian and do not encourage use of USL.

From 2006 to 2016, the governing body that publishes language textbooks and research articles and regulates the methods of teaching Ukrainian sign language was the Laboratory of sign language at the Institute of Special Education of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. It was established in 2006. In 2016 it was reorganized into the Department of Sign Language at the Institute of Special Education of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine.

Since the Russian invasion of February 2022, the expert committee at the Ukrainian Society of the Deaf has been working to derussify Ukrainian Sign Language and fingerspelling, eradicating Russianisms and other Russian influences that were forcibly imposed in the Soviet period and reconstructing historical signs, developing new signs and fingerspelling, and adopting international gestures.

NGOs

The Ukrainian Society of the Deaf (Ukrainian: Українське товариство глухих, УТОГ, UTOG) was established in 1933, and since 1957 has been a permanent member of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) as well as a member of the WFD Eastern Europe and Middle Asia Regional Secretariat. UTOG was established as an organization of Ukrainians with hearing impairments, both deaf and hearing-impaired ones, to provide them with assistance in their professional, labor and social rehabilitation, in protecting their lawful rights and interests and in asserting themselves as citizens that are fully integrated into society. Excluding hearing impaired in the temporarily Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, there were 43,108 registered Ukrainian nationals with hearing impairments as of 1 January 2015, of whom 38,746 persons are members of UTOG (approximately 90%).

USL research

Ukrainian Sign Language Project

In 2007, the Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness at the University of Alberta established the Ukrainian Sign Language Project, headed by Dr. Debra Russell, to support the recognition of USL as the language of instruction for Deaf children in Ukraine. Its outcomes were projected to document USL, create a USL teaching curriculum for teacher education and parents of Deaf children, formalize the training of interpreters, and improve the training of teachers of the Deaf.

Comparative linguistics studies

One 2005 study is suggestive of some sort of relationship between USL, Russian Sign Language (RSL), and Moldovan Sign Language (MSL), but does not provide any conclusive evidence as to whether they are the same or different languages. In a 2005 study of Eastern European signed languages, a wordlist from Ukrainian Sign Language had about 70% similarity to wordlists from Russian Sign Language and Moldovan Sign Language. Noting that these three SLs had as high a lexical similarity as what was "found within certain countries, although not as high as what was found within ASL", the author recommended that "these countries should be investigated further to see how much difference there is between them: whether they represent different dialects of the same language or closely-related languages," and that future, more detailed, study should "use more precise measures such as intelligibility testing, rather than relying on wordlist comparisons alone." The study's closing remarks warn against inappropriate interpretation of the results, noting that "a preliminary survey of this sort is not meant to provide definitive results about the relatedness or identity of different languages. Besides the various caveats mentioned above, another important factor is that lexical similarity is only one facet of what is involved in comparing languages. Grammatical structure and other differences can be just as significant; two languages can have very similar vocabulary but enough other differences to make it difficult for people to communicate with each other."

chart of letters in the Ukrainian manual alphabet, with Ukrainian Cyrillic script equivalents
The Ukrainian manual alphabet.

Fingerspelling

Ukrainian Sign Language uses a one-handed manual alphabet, or fingerspelling, based on the alphabet used in Old French Sign Language, but adapted to spell out words from the Ukrainian language. Known as the Ukrainian manual alphabet, it consists of 33 signs which make use of the 23 handshapes of USL. Some of these signs thus share handshapes; for example, the signs for Г & Ґ use the same handshape but in one the thumb is still, while in the other it moves up and down.

In USL as in other sign languages, fingerspelling serves as a type of borrowing from Ukrainian. It is used for proper nouns, for technical terms with no native USL equivalent, abbreviations of longer Ukrainian words, and some colloquial Ukrainian words. Fingerspelling may also be used instead of a synonymous sign for emphasis.

A common misconception is that USL consists only of fingerspelling. Although communication using only fingerspelling has been used, it is not USL.

Use in films

See also

Relevant literature

  • Bickford, J. Albert (2005). The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe (PDF). SIL International and University of North Dakota. p. 45. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  • Lukyanova, S. P. (2001). Деякі аспекти розвитку нечуючих / Some issues in the development of nonhearing persons. Proceedings of the First Ukrainian Conference on the History of Deaf Education in Ukraine (pp. 216–218). Kyiv: UTOG (in Ukrainian)
  • Russell, D. (2008). Ukrainian signed language: Bridging research and educational practice. Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference: The Ukrainian Diaspora in the Global Context Lʹviv. 2008. 277 pp. (p. 258 – 259).
  • Kobel, Ihor (2009). Ukrainian hearing parents and their deaf children (doctoral dissertation). Edmonton: University of Alberta. p. 233. Archived from the original on 25 February 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
  • Kulbida, S. V. (2009) "Ukrainian sign language as a natural notation system." scientific journal «Sign language and modern»: К.: Pedagogicha dumka (2009): 218–239.
  • Krivonos, Yu G., et al. (2009) "Information technology for Ukrainian sign language simulation." Artificial Intelligence 3 (2009): 186–198.
  • Davydov, M. V., I. V. Nikolski, and V. V. Pasichnyk. (2010) "Real-time Ukrainian sign language recognition system." Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on. Vol. 1. IEEE, 2010.
  • Davydov, M. V., et al. (2013) "Providing Feedback in Ukrainian Sign Language Tutoring Software." Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems-Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. 241–261.

References

  1. Ukrainian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Ukrainian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. Deaf Actors Excel in Emotive Silent Movie - The Tribe - SLFirst Deaf Magazine, 29 April 2015
  4. Interview: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy - Film Comment, 19 June 2015
  5. Louisiana International Film Festival releases full lineup for 2015: See the schedule - Nola.com, April 28, 2015
  6. 'The Tribe' Is the Best Ukrainian Sign Language Movie So Far This Year – Vice, 14 January 2015
  7. The Tribe – Ukrainian Sign Language Film Winning Praises – Ukie Daily, 17 June 2015
  8. All Sign Language, No Subtitles: Behind the Ukrainian Thriller That’s Changing How We Experience Cinema – Yes Magazine, Jul 17, 2015
  9. ^ Кульбіда Світлана Вікторівна. Теоретико-методичні засади використання жестової мови у навчанні нечуючих. Автореферат дисертації на здобуття наукового ступеня доктора педагогічних наук. Київ – 2010. Інститут спеціальної педагогіки Національна академія педагогічних наук України, ст. 10 - / Kyl'bida Svitlana Viktorivna. Theoretic & Methodological Concepts of Using Sign Language in Educating Deaf. Summary of a Phd Thesis in Pedagogical Sciences. Kyiv - 2010. Institute of Special Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, p 10 (in Ukrainian)
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