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ASL is native to the US and English-speaking Canada, but dialects are used in 19 other countries, including (with the name of the ASL dialect in parentheses):

  1. Bolivia (Bolivian Sign Language)
  2. Ghana (Ghanaian Sign Language)
  3. Nigerian Sign (Nigerian Sign Language)
  4. Senegal (Francophone African Sign Language)
  5. Mauritania (Francophone African Sign Language)
  6. Mali (Francophone African Sign Language)
  7. Guinea (Francophone African Sign Language)
  8. Ivory Coast (Francophone African Sign Language)
  9. Burkina Faso (Francophone African Sign Language)
  10. Togo (Francophone African Sign Language)
  11. Benin (Francophone African Sign Language)
  12. Niger (Francophone African Sign Language)
  13. Chad (Francophone African Sign Language)
  14. Central African Republic (Francophone African Sign Language)
  15. Gabon (Francophone African Sign Language)
  16. Republic of Congo (Francophone African Sign Language)
  17. Democratic Republic of Congo (Francophone African Sign Language)
  18. Burundi (Francophone African Sign Language)
  19. Morocco (Francophone African Sign Language)

There are also Sign languages which were standardized with ASL in a kind of creole fashion. These languages are not mutually intelligible with ASL, but they are related, in the way that Haitian Creole is related to French, including:

  1. Costa Rican Sign Language
  2. Greek Sign Language
  3. Jamaican Sign Language
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