Deaf people use sign language to communicate. Could a deaf person from France use sign language to communicate with a deaf person from Italy or is sign language used differently from country to country?
2007-02-26 01:37:01 · 8 answers · asked by fmsheridan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Sign language varies from country to country. In fact, the Americans and the Brits don't even use the same sign language!
2007-02-26 01:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by tangerine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Wikipedia:
As is the case in spoken language, sign language differs from one region to another. However, when people using different signed languages meet, communication is significantly easier than when people of different spoken languages meet. [...] Sign language is however not universal, and many different sign languages exist that are mostly mutually unintelligible.
From, ask Yahoo:
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."
2007-02-26 10:54:18 · answer #2 · answered by Karin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deaf people in America use what is called "american sign language", so I don't think that goes universal, but I'm not entirely sure. There are universal signs but those are just the really basic one's that everyone uses in their lives.
2007-02-26 09:42:14 · answer #3 · answered by J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every country unfortunately developed its own sign language for the deaf. Thus they are mutually unintelligible, which is a shame.
2007-02-26 09:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by Dennis J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's different all over the world. In the UK there is even a children's sign language.
2007-02-26 10:45:33 · answer #5 · answered by Pseudonym45 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, each country has a different sign language
2007-02-27 06:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many, many different sign languages.
2007-02-26 09:43:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use American Sign Language (Aslam)...it differs in each country
2007-02-26 09:40:47 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋