Universal Sign Language Translator Project

ASL: Family Members

2008-02-13T17:45:00.004+02:00

Family members / Membres de la famille / Familienmitglieder /בני משפחה / 家族
Following are the ASL signs for: mother, father, daughter, son, baby

ISL: Family Members / שפת סימנים: בני משפחה

2008-02-03T21:29:00.000+02:00

Following are the ISL signs for family members: Family, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, Uncle, Aunt, Brother, Sister, Grandchild, Grandchildren, Grandfather, Grandmother, Parents

סימנים של בני המשפחה: משפחה, אבא, אמא, בן, בת, דוד, דודה, אח, אחות, נין, נינים, סבא, סבתא, הורים

Filmed & directed by Haggith Gor Ziv; Signer: Sharon Meidan; Video editing, uploading & subtitles by Noam A. Rotem
Special thanks to Haggith Gor Ziv from the Center of Critical Pedagogy at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel who filmed this video. Also a very special thanks to her student--Sharon Meidan who appears in the video.

Israeli Sign Language: Colors / שפת סימנים: צבעים

2008-02-03T16:34:00.000+02:00

Following are the ISL signs for the Colors: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Black, Grey, White, Purple, Pink, Orange

צבעים: אדום, צהוב, ירוק, כחול, שחור, אפור, לבן, סגול ,כתום, ורוד, חום

Japanese Sign Language: Kiss

2008-01-10T21:52:00.000+02:00

Special thanks to YouTube user mvoir33 mvoir33 who found this video by YouTube user heartfulpowerYaYoi

British Sign Language: Numbers

2008-01-06T16:39:00.000+02:00

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user soniahollis)

Langue des Signes Française: Alphabet

2007-12-31T14:58:00.000+02:00

Source: found on Google video (thanks to http://www.usm67.org/)

Swedish Sign Language: Colors

2007-12-31T13:47:00.000+02:00

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user anette66 from Sweden)

British Sign Language: Colors

2007-12-31T01:32:00.001+02:00

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user artofvision)

British Sign Language: Alphabet

2007-12-30T23:46:00.000+02:00

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user soniahollis)

Japanese Sign Language: Alphabet

2007-12-30T23:34:00.000+02:00

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to user kohyin)

Source: found on YouTube (thanks to user mvoir33)

American Sign Language: Alphabet

2007-12-30T23:16:00.000+02:00

ASL: Alphabet from sesame street
Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user iosbase)

ASL: Alphabet from MyWeeHands
Source: found on YouTube (thanks to YouTube user MyWeeHands)

Since 2001, WeeHands has taught thousands of families, child care staff and other caregivers across North America to sign with their infants and toddlers

ASL: Love

2007-12-30T20:36:00.000+02:00

ASL sign for: Love
video clip coming soon...

ISL: תודה (Thanks)

2007-12-22T16:00:00.000+02:00

ASL sign for: Thank you
video clip coming soon...

About the Universal Sign Language Translator Project

2007-12-21T15:00:00.000+02:00

Overview
The Universal Sign Language Translator Project (USLTP) is an initiative designed to harness the global outreach of the Internet in order to gather signs from sign languages around the world. The hope is to create a basis for an online cross-sign language dictionary reference that can serve as a sign-language translation tool across major world sign languages.

Project Objectives
This project hopes it may:

Serve as a cross-reference tool in facilitating better communication amongst deaf communities worldwide
Provide a free online sign language resource for everyone
Provide a platform to explore sharing a greater number of basic signs across worldwide sign-languages. This project appreciates and celebrates cultural diversity in all its forms and is not out to create an Esperanto sign language. Rather it hopes to offer a platform for exploration and discussion on sharing a larger base set of signs for better and richer communication between deaf people around the world
Promote deaf advocacy issues concerning deaf and the internet. One salient issue being the regrettable lack of closed captions (CC, i.e., subtitles) on the vast majority of online video content
Play one small role in improving global communication and making the world a better place (aka Tikkun Olam)

Project Roadmap
This project is being started on a blog as it offers an easy to setup, cost free, and globally pre-positioned technology. In the long-term, given enough content, interest and some funding, the hope is to deploy this application on its own domain name website, powered by a robust content management system, with sophisticated search and cataloging/labeling tools, so it could serve as a comprehensive online cross-sign language translation web application.

About the Founder and Editor in Chief of USLTP
Noam Rotem is a project and product manager in the IT sector. He holds a BSc. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University and an Executive MSc. in Marketing from Baruch College, City University of New York. Noam has spent parts of his childhood and adulthood living in Israel and New York City, and has been living for the past 8 years in Tel Aviv, Israel. Noam grew up with his deaf sister--Liora, and they communicate together using a combinataion of PSE and ASL.

How I came up with this idea
In the summer of 2005 I attended with my sister a conference for Jewish deaf in Florida. At the conference there were also several deaf people from Israel who spoke ISL (Israeli Sign Language). On the one hand it was clear that these Israelis attendees were missing out on a lot of what was getting translated into ASL . At the same time there was interest by the Jewish American attendees to know a little more about Israeli signs. -- Noam Rotem