Sign Languages Around the World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.พ. 2021
- The way the world is divided up into different sign languages is completely different from how it is with spoken language. For example, people in the U.S. use almost the same sign language as people in Bolivia and Costa Rica, but one that is totally unrelated to British Sign Language.
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Really, I should have redone the first map when I saw this, but the BSL-family languages ("BANZL") should also include Namibia and Angola in southeastern Africa -- I read that both countries use Namibian Sign Language, which was based on South African Sign.
Also, by the way, the German and Austrian sign families also descend from Old French Sign.
A big problem too is that there's not always a lot of agreement among different sources as to which sign languages are related to which, and how closely related they are, at least from what I could find for this video.
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Thanks for making a video on this subject, even if it is just a basic overview, because i can’t find many others. There’s a lack of info on sign languages in general and so many misconceptions-it’s staggering how many people think there’s only one, that it’s artificial, that it’s based on English, etc.
I know about 420 signs in ASL but lost steam simply because i haven’t been able to anyone to learn/practice it with and it’s discouraging always having to do it alone with no one to communicate with.
But for several weeks around a year or 2 ago i did know a Costa Rican girl who was learning LESCO, and it’s cool because it’s so similar to ASL that we could communicate basic things to each other and generally understand, despite never having studied the other one (similar to written Spanish & Portuguese). According to what little info i could find online, 60%-the majority-of LESCO vocabulary is composed of cognates of ASL, and that seems consistent with my experience.
I also know an extremely small amount of LSM (mainly the alfabet).
And yeah, from what i’ve found on the subject in the past, that effort to push an artificial “Arabic Sign Language” is either laffed off as ridiculousby Arabs or actively annoys them, and doesn’t appear to have signs (no pun intended, but i’ll take it) of going anywhere.
Fun fact: one of my spoken/written languages, Esperanto-an auxiliary conlang-has its own sign language companion as well, tho from what i understand it’s not very extensively developed, and good luck finding anyone who knows it. Tho i’d be happy to if i had a partner!
Thanks for the comment! Very interesting about LESCO, and for sure it's too bad more people don't sign. It's such a useful way to communicate, it should be mandatory in schools, imo
I love this video but I wish we could visually see those different sign languages. It would be awesome to see a video with collaboration of all the different sign languages.
Really interesting topic. A fun fact about Sign Languages : there was basically a signed lingua franca used through a large portion of pre-contact North America. Used mostly for trade, it spanned multiple spoken language families and people groups. It’s called (among other names) Plains Indian Sign Language, I’m not sure if there is really a community using it anymore tho, I believe there are under 100 users still left
Oh! Also! Anyone reading this should totally check out Nicaraguan sign language. The story behind its development is absolutely fascinating.
Thanks for the comment! I've read that ASL incorporated some Native American signs initially, possibly the sign for "noon" among others
I can hand talk
I took 3 years of ASL in high school and I absolutely loved it! I learned lots more about Deaf culture and how it works with American life and laws(or lack there of). If anyone is interested in learning a type of sign language I wouldn’t suggest just jumping into it by watching videos online, you should sign up for a class or something with more structure because it’s needed when learning ASL way more than any spoken language.
p.s. I loved the video, I learned exactly what you explained in the video and it made lots of sense.
Thanks for the comment! I'm also obsessed with ASL -- definitely want to do more content on signing in the future. Interesting about classroom experience being important, I guess since signing is so different from spoken language.
Really good video! Very informative and interesting, thanks!
Very informative! Thank you!
oo this explains a lot pretty well!
Thanks!
Happy 9,000 subs bro
Thanks! :-D
The information is very helpful. Sound quality could be better, it was hard to listen clearly.
Thank you very much, that was exactly what I needed. 😊
One question though: do you know more than one sign language because I am not sure wich one I should learn or if I can learn the basics of two..
And if you do not know any sign language maybe someone else can help me.
Hi, first of all,what is the reason you want to learn sign language?.. is it because someone I'd deaf in your home, or are interested in sign language, or it's for your carrier? You have to see where you want to use the sign language. The UK sign it with 2 hands and US use only 1 hand. For example, I'm from Malaysia, we re mostly using the American way of alphabets.. I'm learning it for my job purpose.
@@nasreen811 I just want to learn it because I think that it is very important and that there are so many deaf people out there who I want to be able to speak with. Thank you for your reply.
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Hey, you just learn and master sign language. It's a skill and now it's lot of demand. For example, Im just a normal housewife..Im an Indian, born in Malaysia. Malaysian mostly follow the UK way in education, luckily sign language are similar to the American Sign Language. Since I'm married to an Indian citizen,I thought I want to go to India and learn and learn but since I was born in Malaysia,I find it difficult to learn in india because they're fully UK. If you think you want to sit in your country and talk to the deaf,then sit there and volunteer in some deaf school..if you think you want to work in Canada or US,then you better master ASL.
If you want to go to the European country, then they're more to french/Spanish language..you have to learn to french first.
Like me now,I pay to a deaf teacher who comes to my house and teach me.
Learning to sign is really easy,but when the deaf talks to you, that's when you will be so blur. I suggest you to go and volunteer in a deaf kindergarten, their sign level is low..
It's a skill you will learn.
@@nasreen811 okay, thank you very much I will go and think this through. But I definitely want to take my time and learn sign language
Best thing to do would be to go to your local college, university or school for the deaf and ask to learn the local signed language, and then grow your skills from there. :)
Great topic, I'm currently teaching sign language at our community college, of its alright with you I'd like to share this with my student.
Of course, go right ahead. And thanks for watching!
Can you make a video on Sanskrit language?
Where did you get the map at 1:47 from? Germany, Poland and Israel are shaded blue, but that language family is not descended from Old French Sign Language.
Thanks for watching! In terms of German Sign (DGS), I can't say how close the overall language is to Old French Sign, but a lot of elements definitely come from it -- for example, both DGS and Austrian Sign (which derives from Austro-Hungarian Sign Language, the parent of the Austrian cluster ) have a shared signing alphabet that comes from French Sign. Anyway, in making that map, I gave the benefit of the doubt whenever I could find at least SOME evidence of a connection to French Sign.
@@WorldisOurThing Yes, the fingerspelling used in DGS is derived from the same source, but fingerspelling is mearly a tool used within sign languages that can be (and is) borrowed wholesale from one to another. The fact that we write English in the Latin alphabet doesn't make it a Romance language.
Can you talk about the Maltese language just like you did to the other ones like Pashto, Tamil, Turkish, Armenian and more
Will definitely get to Maltese eventually. Thanks for watching!
Yeh but last time you made the Khmer language, talking about it has no tones, and long alphabet and there were lots of explanation but can you do the same thing like the other ones but this time Maltese thank you
That's the "A Look At Languages" series, and for sure I want to include Maltese in that. Right now I have a list that I'm working down, but will get Maltese on there too -- Mela! :-)
Thank you for this interesting video.
My question is : is there anyone who tried to unify the sign language? Or should I do that ? 😁...No really, I think that this language should be universal and could be used all around the world !
Languages are tightly related to culture; location, way of thinking etc. that's why trying to unify languages is pretty hard, variations will drift away with time and even become their own. I could imagine that being the case with sign languages as well, although who knows, we're really interconnected nowadays.
In Brazil the sign language it's decend of French sign language
Compton has a sign language
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Thanks!
9:03 What does that say?
I know ISL - Indian Sign Language