article cited by academic publication this wikipedia page was cited by an article in a current academic journal ross e mitchell travas a young bellamie bachleda michael a karchmer how many people use asl in the united states why estimates need updating sign language studies the authors discuss the lack of reliable data on the number of asl users and the widely disparate estimations made on the web to they conclude that no reliable estimate of the number of signers exists and that most estimates can be traced to two unreliable studies in the s this wikipedia article when it was accessed by the author november suggested that asl ranked somewhere between rd most and th most used language in the usa hugs to the contributors to this page ntennis