ABOUT THE SITE
This site was developed by Jeffrey Davis, PhD, Professor of Sign Language Linguistics and Interpretation at the University of Tennessee with support from a 2006-2007 research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation for Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL).
Why is this site called Hand Talk?
PISL and the other varieties of Native North American signed language have gone by various names, but the name traditionally
given to it by the people who used it was "Hand Talk." Though too general to be used in taxonomy, the name Hand Talk belongs, like the language itself, to its users above all.
Contact
For questions or comments, please send an email to handtalk@utk.edu.
Acknowledgments
Research and website assistance was provided by Dane Bell and Cito Pellegra. This site was designed by Megan Heikkinen, with support from the START Program at the University of Tennessee.