The symbols of American Sign Language are visible representations of concepts. They represent neither spoken nor written words, thus making it meaningless to refer to ASL as ideographic.
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- 美國手語(yǔ)的象征是對概念的可視表達。它們既不代表書(shū)面語(yǔ)言也不代表口語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言(即是手語(yǔ)與書(shū)面語(yǔ)言和口頭語(yǔ)言是不同的),所以將其指為表意文字是沒(méi)有什么意義的。