手しゅ話わ言げん語ご

noun

sign language

Refers to sign language as a full linguistic system, often used in academic or advocacy contexts to emphasize its status as a natural language.

• 手しゅ話わ言げん語ごは、音おん声せい言げん語ごと同おなじように複ふく雑ざつな文ぶん法ぽうを持もっている。

  Sign language has complex grammar just like spoken languages.

• 日本にほん手しゅ話わ言げん語ご法ほうの制せい定ていを求もとめる声こえが高たかまっている。

  There are growing calls for the enactment of a Japanese Sign Language law.