Protactile

A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.

Proper noun

  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 5, Massimiliano...
    • ProTactile builds on this quality of expression, alive with decisions made on the fly, touches become pass-words for fields of composition as yet uncharted. - 2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the...

Origin

From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.

Forms

Pro-Tactile ProTactile

Synonyms

PT

Related

tactile American Sign Language tactile ASL Wiktionary’s coverage of American Sign Language terms