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native signer

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Noun

native signer (plural native signers)

  1. (linguistics) A person who grew up with a particular sign language as their mother tongue.
    Hypernyms: signer < person
    Coordinate terms: speaker; native speaker, non-native speaker
    Worldwide, there are at least 29 sign languages that each have at least ten thousand native signers.

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