Different sign languages

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I know there is ASL and BSL. Are there others as well for like China or Russia or Japan.

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Yes, there are different sign languages in most countries, just in the same way as there are different spoken languages. A sign language arises and is spread in the same way as other languages do.
 
I'm curious cause I like to travel and would love to pick up other languages.

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In Canada (Quebec), There is LSQ (Quebec Sign Language which is French sign language). Yes, there are different sign languages almost pretty much all over the world. Some of the countries has ASL like Puerto Rico and other countries like England and Australia.
 
What do deaf people who travel a lot do when abroad? I have heard of international sign, but am not really sure many people know it?
 
two students from denmark stayed at my house for a week. We taught each other with our sign language really AWESOME.. it was so easy!
 
dogmom said:
caz you got me curious so I looked up Welsh Sign Language and there's this book of both ASL and Welsh signs - http://www.wcdeaf.org.uk/publications.html
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galic signs aswel(Scotland)have feel sorry for who do wsl not be many people sign with.They going hope Americans come..Most Welsh don't even know own language.
I would like to know what they sign south Argentina language welsh with strong Spanish overtones
 
Russian Sign Language is way different than ASL, but I like to sign in RSL because of more pictionary, and its funny meanings. ASL is plain and bored with a lot of spellings. :ugh3:
 
caz12 said:
galic signs aswel(Scotland)have feel sorry for who do wsl not be many people sign with.They going hope Americans come..Most Welsh don't even know own language.
I would like to know what they sign south Argentina language welsh with strong Spanish overtones
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Yeah, I was wondering if there were Gaelic sign languages........Is there Irish Gaelic Sign?(apart from ISL?) Did Cornish or Breton Sign ever exist?
 
deafdyke said:
Yeah, I was wondering if there were Gaelic sign languages........Is there Irish Gaelic Sign?(apart from ISL?) Did Cornish or Breton Sign ever exist?
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yes there irish sign.Cornish I think about 4 or 5 people speak it and they not 100% sure it right
this got me thinking chaucer's 'Millers tale'it do translate very well BSL but would ASL have same translation I was thinking one specific word and it has to be used if studying middle English
 
Sign languages have their own unique language famlies, that to hearies make little sense. Also like any languges they function differently with concepts. Japanese sign language is a good case here. In its different cultural view of time. Where the signs are for past, present, and future as conpared to say, asl.
As for traveling in most the third world us deafies have a very hard life.harder then the hard life of hearies in those places. I remember when i lived in mexico the story broke of us deafies bieng literally used and kept as slaves, by gangs... And in many countries sign is not accepted as a valid means of communication. Also bieng deafie travaling in the third world has its unique set of plms. As for the first world, its allot easier. Now with the net too easy. Just connect with deafies. Deafie orgs. And so on. U can float through europe that way...and have a blast.

Im still recovering from the hangover irish deafies gave me in dublin ohhhh 15 years ago...phew. it was by fate or luck i ended up sipping in a pub literally down the road from the deafie school...oh yeah...

What a great time...

Granted those double decker busses and a sick vomting hoichi on the top floor didnt. Stir too well...
oh dublin i miss you soo..
 
one worse places for deafie is pacific islands documentary I was watching encouraging Brits and americans to help young deaf people from those islands..was thinking myself let one stay few months
hoichi you go to guiness and whisky place...Nothing like sitting outside pub watching the river in Dublin with guiness in hand taste different taste even more vile and river stinks
I have had no trouble going around Europe nz Australia even South Africa in fact Africa one most helpful countries ever been to aslong do homework first as you say lots of help with deafie orgs
 
Ah the liffy wasnt that bad. And your right. homework fiest more fun later.
Didnt know about the pacific islanders. Im not supriised Though.
 
I learned from a Deaf Native group forum that we have PSL (Plains Sign Language) in Indian Country (Native Americans). Very few of us learned few PSL signs and the signs were different but other signs were same as ASL. We think that ASL was invented by Native Americans, not French man or Gallaudet invented it.
 
Bebonang said:
I learned from a Deaf Native group forum that we have PSL (Plains Sign Language) in Indian Country (Native Americans). Very few of us learned few PSL signs and the signs were different but other signs were same as ASL. We think that ASL was invented by Native Americans, not French man or Gallaudet invented it.
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