It connects American Sign Language with Manually Coded English (MCE) by incorporating signs and syntax employed by both forms. Sometimes referred to as Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE), PSE stands for Pidgin Signed English, and it can be thought of as a bridge language. If two signers meet one another, and they subscribe to different sign forms, how are they to communicate with one another? Well, in some instances, by using PSE. In fact, there can be multiple sign languages used within an individual nation, which can get a little confusing for the people using them. American Sign Language (ASL), for instance, is completely different from British Sign Language (BSL), used in the UK.

And that’s to name just a few.Įven nations that speak the same core language can have different official forms of sign language. There’s Libras (LSB, LGB, LSCB), the sign language used in urban Brazil Langue Des Signes Francais (LSF), the French form Lingua Dei Segni Italiana (LIS), the Italian form and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL) used by roughly 7 million people across the Indo subcontinent.

Did you know that there are around 300 forms of sign language in use right now around the globe? It’s amazing, right?

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