Meanings
Protactile1
alternative Pro-Tactile · alternative ProTactile
- A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
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 Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN1 more example
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 28, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257Synonyms: PT
ProTactile2
- alternativeAlternative spelling of Protactile.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
Origin
From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.
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Cite this entry
Protactile. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Protactile
“Protactile.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Protactile. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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