home sign
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The gestural communication system, less than a complete sign language, developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language."