would a deaf person be able to go to china or russia or somewhere and do the same sign language or would they have to learn chinese sign language?
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would a deaf person be able to go to china or russia or somewhere and do the same sign language or would they have to learn chinese sign language?
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Surprisingly, it is different. A boy at school knew sign language, and he said that it’s different in other languages. But it makes sense, since the sign languages developed in different places.
Nope, it’s different everywhere. So yes, they’d have to learn Chinese sign language.
No. There are British Sign Language, American Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, and so on.
Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages develop. In fact, their complex spatial grammars are markedly different from the grammars of spoken languages. Hundreds of sign languages are in use around the world and are at the cores of local Deaf cultures. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition, while others have no status at all.
No it isn’t. That’s why they specify ASL as American Sign Language, so I’d
imagine similar abbreviations for sign language for words in other languages.
No. They are different in the same way voice language is different.