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Pro-Tactile

Pro-Tactile is the alternative spelling of Protactile.

Meaning of Protactile

Proper noun

Protactile

  1. A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
    • Exploring the linguistic phenomenon of pro-tactile has lead Terra Edwards to make distinctions between Tactile ASL (TASL) and Visual ASL (VASL) (www.protactile.org, October 3, 2014).2016 November, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257
    Synonyms:
    PT

Questions about Pro-Tactile

What is Pro-Tactile the alternative spelling of?
Pro-Tactile is the alternative spelling of Protactile.

Words near Pro-Tactile in the dictionary

  1. pro-state
  2. pro-sumti
  3. pro-Sunni
  4. pro-syllogism
  5. pro-syllogisms
  6. Pro-Tactile
  7. pro-terrorist
  8. pro-tip
  9. pro-tips
  10. pro-vaccination
  11. pro-vaccinationist

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