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[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Tracy, and I'm learning Russian for the second time. I go to NTID here in Rochester, NY as an ASL interpreting student. This summer I will be in Saint Petersburg for a month and I'm really interested in learning more about the Deaf in Russia.

I have a question:

What does Жестовый mean?

I've seen this: Русский Жестовый Язык, to mean Russian Sign Language, but my teacher told me it would be язык русский немых. Is this no longer considered correct? If I say I study American Sign Language, would I use Американский Жестовый Язык or Язык Американский Немых?


Thanks for your help!

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[oryx_and_crake]

жест - gesture
жестовый - of, or referring to, gestures

In язык русский немых, язык американский немых the word order is wrong anyway. Русский язык глухонемых (Russian language of deaf and dumb) is used, and русский жестовый язык is used, too (yandex search engine finds approximately the same number of occurrences for both). On the other hand, "русский язык немых" is not found at all.

Also please mind that in Russian none of these words are capitalized, unless it stnads in the very beginnging of the sentence (then the first letter is capitalized).

[valnoled.livejournal.com]

IMHO, 'Язык жестов' is preferable...
and I guess you are free to use 'язык глухонемых' as well

[ksushis.livejournal.com]

+1
I think 'язык жестов' sounds better and more natural. The translation would be "sign language".

[aromanov.livejournal.com]

жестовый язык and язык глухих is the same. and жестовый is correct.
жестовый is an adjective from жест (gesture).
You should say Я изучаю американский язык немых or Я изучаю американский жестовый язык.
you should never use capitals in русский or американский. Russians don't do that.

[aromanov.livejournal.com]

язык глухих and язык глухонемых is both colloquial.
so if you want it to sound literary, use язык жестов or жестовый язык.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Maybe, she was thining of other sign languages, like the ones in airports, on ships and so on? Язык глухих or the language of deaf for sure has no disambiguation.

[starbax.livejournal.com]

"язык жестов" maybe it is "nonverbal communication"?))

[starbax.livejournal.com]

Specifically "жестовый" means "nonverbal communication" maybe... i think))

[aromanov.livejournal.com]

or even mental? ;)