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Language: American Sign Language

Population of Groups Speaking

991,000

People Groups Speaking as Primary Language

Scripture Status

Complete Bible

Audio Bible

Not Available

Jesus Film

Watch

Gospel Recordings

Not Available

Map Notes

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
Deaf	Barbados	1,400	3 ●
Deaf	Benin	141,000	2 ●
Deaf	Canada	78,000	3 ●
Deaf	Dominican Republic	86,000	3 ●
Deaf	United States	684,000	3 ●
Deaf	St Vincent and Grenadines	500	3 ●
Totals: 6			0 ●

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People Group ▲	Country	Population	Progress Scale
Deaf	Guatemala	138,000	3 ●
Deaf	Mali	240,000	1 ●
Totals: 2			1 ●

Download Sources Definitions Prayer Cards

Item	Value
Status	Living
Ethnologue Code	ase
Written	Yes
Bible Translation	Complete Bible
Progress Scale	Indeterminate

More Information
Ethnologue
GRN MapApp
ISO639-3
PeopleGroups.org
Glottolog
Wikipedia

Language Alternate Names
Ameslan
ASL
Benin Sign Language
Black ASL
Burkina Faso Sign Language
Francophone ASL
Gabonese Sign Language
Haitian Sign Language
Langue des signes américaine
Langue des signes congolaise
Langue des signes d’Afrique francophone
Langue des signes de Côte d’Ivoire
Langue des signes de l’Afrique francophone
Langue des signes du Congo
Langue des signes franco-africaine
Langue des signes haïtienne
LSAF Ivoirienne
Malian ASL
Tactile ASL (TASL)
Togo Sign Language

Dialects
Benin
Black American Sign Language
Myanmar Rangon Sign Language
Tactile American Sign Language
Tactile Asl

Dialect Alternate Names
American Sign Language: Black American Sign Langua
American Sign Language: Tactile ASL
Benin Sign Language
Black ASL
Tactile American Sign Language
TASL

Bible Translation	Year / Status
Bible Portions	1982-1996
New Testament	2005
Complete Bible	2020

Possible Print Bibles
Amazon
Virtual Storehouse
Forum Bible Agencies
National Bible Societies
World Bible Finder

Resource Directories
Scripture Earth
Language Archives
Linguist List
SIL Resources

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Format ▲	Resource (Direct link)	Source (General link)
Film / Video	God's Story video	God's Story
Film / Video	Jesus Film: view in American Sign Language	Jesus Film Project
Film / Video	World Christian Videos	World Christian Videos
General	Scripture Earth Gospel resources links	Scripture Earth
General	Zume Resources	Zume Project
General	Zume Training	Zume Project

The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. The Progress Scale is derived from people group values for percent Evangelical and percent Christian Adherent.

Level	Description	Criteria
1	Unreached - Few evangelicals and few who identify as Christians. Little, if any, history of Christianity.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians <= 5%
2	Minimally reached - Few evangelicals, but significant number who identify as Christians.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 5% and <= 50%
3	Superficially reached - Few evangelicals, but many who identify as Christians. In great need of spiritual renewal and commitment to biblical faith.	Evangelicals <= 2% Professing Christians > 50%
4	Partially reached - Evangelicals have a modest presence.	Evangelicals > 2% and <= 10%
5	Significantly reached - Evangelicals have a significant presence.	Evangelicals > 10%

Disclaimers:

Joshua Project data is drawn from many sources and of varying accuracy depending on source and editorial decisions. Populations are scaled to the current year. Other data may have varying ages. We welcome updates.
Joshua Project occasionally adjusts profile text from third party sources. This is done to avoid confusion regarding the current reality of a people group, to fix grammar and spelling and to avoid potentially offensive wording.
A displayed zero can mean true zero, a very small rounded number or sometimes unknown. Blanks mean an unknown value.
Data is not as precise as it appears. Values for %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical (which determine unreached status) are often informed estimates, some more accurate than others. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers.
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