Talk:Japanese Sign Language

message: Is the "Ethnologue report" link worth including? It doesn't seem to be of much value.
--Sakurambo 16:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My guess would be that the reason for the greater use of mouthing is that the manual syllabry is a more recent development.  ASL's manual alphabet is actually older than the language itself, and has thus been present since the beginning of the language.  ASL uses a large number of initialized signs.  If JSL doesn't use initialized signs, or at least not as many, it could explain why mouthing is more necessary; mouthing serves the same function as, e.g., the use of initializing does in distinguishing the ASL signs for "family", "class", and so forth. Nik42 (talk) 01:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: An uploaded image of Princess Akishino signing at a Deaf event was improperly uploaded from the Imperial Household Agency website..   A careful examination of the fair use rationale revealed critical flaws which could not be resolved.  A summary is archived below.  
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:;Non-free use rationale
:*Article           = Japanese Sign Language
:*Description       = Kiko, Princess Akishino gives a speech in Japanese sign language (JSL) at the 22nd Sign Language Speech Contest for High School Students -- August 28, 2005.
:*Source            =  http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/activity/activity03.html  and 
::::   http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/activity/activity/03/activity03-ph.html 
::* Attribution: Asahi Shimbun; please note  Japanese Imperial Household Agency, Notice on Copyright
:*Portion           = The entire photograph is used to convey the impression intended by the Imperial Household Agency (Kunaicho) and to avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.
:*Low resolution    = The digitized image of the original photograph is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by Kunaicho without being unnecessarily high resolution.
:*Purpose           = The significance of the image is to help the reader (a) to identify the use of JSL by a member of the Japanese Imperial family, (b) to show the use of JSL in the context of actual communication, (c) to assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about JSL, and (d) to illustrate the subject of JSL in a way that words alone could not convey.
:*Replaceability    = Because it is a Kunaicho photograph, there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the impression intended by Kunaicho, would tarnish or misrepresent Princess Akishino's image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.
:*Other information = This image comes from the Imperial Household web page which gives it a unique historical imprimatur.This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique event in which Princess Akishino participated; and in this context, she signed a message to the deaf Japanese in her audience in 2005.  The image of the Princess at a Deaf event plus the image of her gestures and hand signing plus her facial expression plus the plain black dress she chose to wear so that her signs could be seen by her audience are the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role).
::* Note:  Japanese Imperial Household Agency, Notice on Copyright
The discussion thread about deleting this file is archived at  Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2010 December 4#File:Princess Akishino JSL.jpgThe image was removed from the article about Japanese Sign Language (JSL).If another image of the Princess using JSL is uploaded, it would enhance the quality of the article about JSL. In addition, it would be good addition to this article about the princess. --Tenmei (talk) 00:52, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Image from Imperial Household Agency website 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I think the japanese government should change the JSL sign for Se... 97.95.160.67  —Preceding undated comment added 22:19, 18 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with Se... 

message: I reverted the number of speakers in the info box to the Ethnologue figure. The IP who changed it added the following to the text -- 
 According to the Japanese Association for Sign Language Studies [ref>Itida, Y. Japanese Association for Sign Language Studies. The Estimated Population of #Japanese Sign Language Users. Retrieved June, 2001.</ref], the estimate number of JSL users is around 60,000 in Japan.
But that's not adequate to ID the ref. If someone can verify, please restore and fix. — kwami (talk) 03:43, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  320k speakers, or 60k?