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Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct
sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with #Non-manual elements, no ...
historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow Tribe introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur d’Alene, Sanpoil, Okanagan, Thompson, Lakes, Shuswap, and Colville), with western nations shifting instead to
Chinook Jargon Chinook Jargon (' or ', also known simply as ''Chinook'' or ''Jargon'') is a language originating as a pidgin language, pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to othe ...
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Non-deaf sign languages North America Native-based pidgins and creoles Interlinguistics First Nations languages in Canada Sign languages of Canada Languages extinct in the 18th century 18th-century disestablishments in North America Extinct languages of North America Sign languages of the United States Extinct sign languages {{sign-lang-stub