2007-10-06 17:44:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I guess.....
2007-10-09 09:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Maru V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It differs with each country. There's even a difference between American and British Sign Language.
2007-10-06 17:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by Belie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More like city to city. In Quebec Province, deaf boys used to be sent to monasteries, and deaf girls to convents. The priests were sent to France to train in Langue des Signes de France, and and the nuns were sent tothe States to learn American Sign Language. These people taught the children what they knew. When they grew up, they were often required to seek Deaf mates. So, you see, Sign languages are not only different from each other (mutually unintelligible) from city to city and from one country to the next, you can even have two groups of people in the same place (men and women...)who don't know each others' Sign Languages. (Although the couples seemed to have worked things out... and their children are claimed to have used the Sign language we have here now, LSQ, which is neither ASL or LSF!).
Also, In Durban (Kwa-Zulu Natal Province, RSA), about 10% of the people are deaf. Under Apartheid, they were all in different schools learning different Sign languages. So a greatly disadvantaged minority could not even communicate within itself... 'Night.
2007-10-06 17:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by hindisikhnewaalaa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many different sign languages. Although many of them are named after countries, they actually arose within deaf communities and were not officially developed by governments or anything like that. Sign languages are just like spoken languages; different ones are used by different groups and they change over time.
2007-10-06 17:56:41 · answer #4 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learnt sign language when I worked as a nurse in the UK. I now live in Spain and the sign language here is very different, so I think it depends where you learnt it. Every country has its own version. Hope this helps!
2007-10-07 12:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by chicababe231 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it changes for every country cos i can sign english sign language but when i went to sign in italy, it was all different!!
2007-10-06 22:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by basciano_babe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It differs from country to country. Don't know about anywhere else but here in the U.K. there are regional differences too. The majority of it is standard across the U.K. but as I say there are some differences.
My 15 year old son is deaf & like all teenagers he & his deaf friends have got slang signs/words that they use.
2007-10-06 20:25:15 · answer #7 · answered by Mimkat hate the new Yahoo Answers so has retired. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe there r 12 differences between north and south in the uk.e.g.in the north the sign for shop is the souths sign for new york.i use bsl an yes there r differences.one of best places to see differences is a restruant in paris,it run by deaf and of course they use fsl but people from all over come.it not hard to pick up if ya use sign as first lang.
2007-10-07 06:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by misscacazzy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some signs are similar but there are regional and national differences. For instance I could understand the sign for God in Latvian, but though I speak Latvian I cannot follow a conversation in Latvian. God is the same as the English sign.
2007-10-07 01:36:36 · answer #9 · answered by zakiit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it differs! In fact there is even an American Indian sign language!
2007-10-06 18:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by starkneckid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hold up two fingers, and then tap your hand and you've got "tomorrow" in French.
Only Joking. A very happy weekend to all you posters who are hard of hearing.
2007-10-06 17:57:52 · answer #11 · answered by Barry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋