International Sign Language

http://www.ethnologue.com/

This is one of my favorite sites. It is an encyclopedia of all the world’s known living languages. All you have to do is search for the language you want and it will pull up information about it. Sometimes there isn’t a lot of information about the language, but other time there are tons of facts. Just check out ASL.

http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/seccion/signos/index.jsp

This is a great resource if you can read Spanish. It is a visual dictionary of Lengua de Signos Española, LSE, Spanish sign language. Here you can find out how to sign words, phrases, and there are even children’s stories you can watch.

http://www.deaflibrary.org/jsl.html

This page gives a short overview of Japanese Sign Language (JSL). It also provides links to a few pages that provide more information, if helps if you can read Japanese. The author of the site also has a book, Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity.

http://ledasila.uni-klu.ac.at/TPM/public/public_main.asp?sid= 

This is a lexical database for sign languages, however it is again written in German (There looks to be an English button but I couldn’t get it to work on my computer). This page has several videos that you can watch. They are all using ÖGS (see next site) and are very easy to watch. It is interesting to see similarity between American signs and these signs.

http://www.sign-it.at/ 

This website is an online project to teach others about Österreichische Gebärdensprache, Austrian sign language. It is in German, but very informational. It has some great links to other sites that provide more information about ÖGS and DGS (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, German sign language). 

http://bda.org.uk/

This is the British Deaf Association’s Sign Community website. It has some videos and lots of up to date information about the British Deaf community. It has a lot of navigation links that provide you with information ranging from Training and event schedules to services and projects that the BDA is sponsoring.

http://edf3.gallaudet.edu/diversity/BGG/Sign%20Language%20Around%20the%20World/Index.html

This is a resource list that has links to several international websites. Several of them are included in this list. It was put together by Gallaudet University. Most of these sites still work, but there are a few that are touchy. 

http://www.acessobrasil.org.br/libras/

This is a video dictionary of LIBRAS, Língua Brasileira de Sinais, the sign language of Brazil. It is easy to use and all of the signs have a video so you can see the production. If you know how to speak Portuguese and want to look up how to sign something the way Brazilians do this is a great resource.

http://www.auslan.org.au/ 

This site is an interactive dictionary of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). It consists of three main components: searching for a sign, fingerspelling, and number signs. One of my favorite things about this site is that in the fingerspelling area it allows you to type a word and it will show you that word fingerspelled.

http://www.liis.lv/latval/zimval/index.htm

This is a simple virtual dictionary for Latvian Sign Language. It has a list of words in alphabetical order that lead to animations. These animations are of the sign production.