If SEE is not a langauage, and the first "language" they learned is SEE as their first communication skills, isn't that a language to them? For example, I learned SEE first before I learned ASL. So therefore, SEE becomes my language to where I can communicate with other deaf or HOH. ASL comes later into my life because that was the only thing that my teacher knows while I was going to school oversea. For example, our language is English but it's a new form of the Old English from Europe, so since it has been modified for our communication, i guess our language isn't a language, it is a modification of the English spoken in Great Britian or England becuase thats where the first "english" langauge was originally from before they found the New Land of America. THe real first English langauge is the ProtoIndo-European at the Black Sea (southern Europe). ANd over the years, thousands of years, english language changed to the best of our need in order to communicate. Language is a human speech, the ability to communicate by any means such as gestures, signs, or body language. So basically, any signs, or word that you use is a language. Despite how we look at it, without ASL, SEE, or any other sign langauge, we would not be able to communicate as well as we do today. ASL is originally from the French. SO many langauges today have been changed for our communication purpose. I understand that SEE is a modified code english, hence the word "english" is a language so therefore, it's a modified langauge just like our language. Many words we have today in our dictionary comes from latin, greek, hebrew, and many other langauge and they have been "modified" for our communication today.
