Name: 【TEDx】Tech for the deaf: How to search for words in sign language: Junto Ohki at TEDxTokyo
Uploaded: 2014-02-28T10:50:21.000Z
Duration: 6 min 50 s
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How many different sign languages  [are there] in the world?

There are at least 126 sign languages in the world.

Technically, each country has their own sign language.

British Sign Language and American Sign Language  are completely different,

People may think  sign language is a minor language,

but sign language is the 4th largest language  in [the] States, next to Chinese.

Sign language is not a tool for communication  between deaf people and hearing people.

Each sign language has their own grammar,  words and a question.

Hey, sign language is not universal?  Why not? It's just for the gestures.

It's got to be nice that the people can talk to anybody  in the world without any interpretation.

But, even body language  does not have universal language.

A lot of people learn English  all over the world,

but still English is not  our universal language.

A lot of people use Chinese  in their daily lives.

People may consider pronunciation and accent.

It could be true, but cultural difference  and histories are more important.

For example, cheating.  Like to cheat someone or [betray].

In American sign language,  cheating is like this.

This is a wall and the person is hiding from someone,  so this is a "spy".

In Japanese old stories, a fox is a typical animal  which cheats people.

They changed themselves into humans  and stole something from people.

A spy cheats people in America  and a fox cheats people in Japan.

Is this pronunciation?  It's a cultural difference.

that it's going to be really hard  to make sign language universal.

Sign language is linguistically a language.

There are a lot of native signers,  whose mother tongues are sign language.

They think, dream and live in sign language.

Now let's talk about myself a little bit.

I personally don't have any deaf people  in my family.

And also, I did not have any deaf friends,  until I started learning sign language.

But, when I saw the sign language [for the] first time, I just fell in love,

because sign language  is such a beautiful language.

So I started to learn sign language  when I was 20 years old,

So when you, when people learn any language,  you need dictionaries.

So we have a Japanese to English dictionary  and an English to Japanese dictionary.

We have a Japanese to Japanese  sign language dictionary

and an English to American  sign language dictionary,

but we don't have a Japanese sign language  to Japanese dictionary

[or] an American sign language  to English dictionary.

When you saw me use sign language  at the beginning of this presentation,

Then - how do you search [for] those signs?

SLinto is the place you can find  the world's first sign language keyboard.

You can type the key for the fingers  and the place of your hands,

then you can search the words  in sign language.

Finally, you can get the meaning  in your language.

SLinto is not only for Japanese [people] and Americans,

this platform can be used  [for] all sign languages in the world.

so you can join us to create this dictionary.

You can just take a video of sign language,  and upload - like YouTube,

edit - like Wikipedia and share - like Facebook.

Today is the first day of a totally  new type of dictionary in history.