Is sign language for the deaf universal? Or is it English specific?
As we learned on a site called Handspeak in the Yahoo! Sign Languages Category, sign language is not universal. Most countries have their own unique sign language. Like spoken languages, sign languages have their own grammar, syntax, and rules. There are even variations in the English-speaking world, making it possible to sign in an “Australian accent.” A particularly fascinating sign language developed on Martha’s Vineyard during the 19th century. Early settlers of the island carried a gene for deafness, and as a result of intermarriage, an unusually large portion of the population was deaf by the mid-1800s. Many of their signs ev
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