Word.ws English Dictionary

sign linguistics

sign linguistics noun: the study of sign languages.

Noun

sign linguistics (uncountable)

  1. (sign language) The study of sign languages.

Questions about sign linguistics

What does sign linguistics mean?
Sign linguistics means the study of sign languages.
What part of speech is sign linguistics?
Sign linguistics is a noun.

Words near sign linguistics in the dictionary

  1. sign into
  2. sign into law
  3. sign language
  4. sign languages
  5. sign linguist
  6. sign linguistics
  7. sign linguists
  8. sign manual
  9. sign name
  10. sign names
  11. sign of contradiction

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sign linguistics (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sign linguistics.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sign_linguistics. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.