in other words-is there signing for say russian and chinese and japanese ,spanish and so on? or if your say american and say you go to japan and meet another person who uses sign language..will you beable to communicate?
i am sure the two will be able to communicate so the point is..wouldn't that make sign language THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE? and if so why isn't it taught more?
2007-03-13 15:26:13 · 4 answers · asked by LS 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
when i realised this question ...it made me think as well. that learning to sign would be very very very useful. its easy to learn and should be on all military and foreign diplomats TO DO LISTS.
2007-03-13 15:37:03 · update #1
i don't know. but i mean come on how much different can a sign for smile be in that many languages? so i don't know but i would think that no would be the answer..but to some degree i think they'd understand each other a lot more than people who actually speak a language. simply because these people use signals to communicate-and that makes sense.
2007-03-15 08:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the previous poster said in all fact, sign languages are not universal, no more than spoken languages are universal.
This is due to all the cultural differences and references in which makes and comprises a language in the first place.
However, there IS a universal sign system created for international Deaf conferences and this is called Gestuno.
Gestuno isn't a true language; and is basically a lot of agreed upon hand signed vocabulary words, but no one uses Gestuno as a native language.
2007-03-15 05:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by MJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sign language isn't universal.
Every language has its own words and they are used to represent SPOKEN words in their country of origin.
- even if it is to describe the same thing (example - "cookie" in America and "biscuit" in England). Also there are words even in English which are foreign to other english speaking countries or may have different meaning (example Australian "thong" has a TOTALLY different meaning to what the Americans version of the same word)
A person who use sign language in Thailand will not understand sign language in Australia.
Also - sign language for people who are both DEAF and Blind is also a different system of representation
Hopes this answers your qeustion
2007-03-13 22:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you made me think....
good question
2007-03-13 22:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by indieassassin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋