I was wondering what are the most common forms of sign language in the world. I was hoping to get maybe the top five. Thanks.
The most common forms of the spoken language are Chinese, English, and Spanish. Does this mean that those are also the most common in sign language as well. Then there is International sign language, although I am not sure how common it is.
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The middle finger of either hand produced backwards to someone whom has wronged you.
I think it depends on what country you’re in. I couldn’t find a site that would say what the most common one is world-wide.
Big article here, you look, you read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language
ASL (American Sign Language) is used over 50 countries around the world, including the States and most parts of Canada. Other countries that use ASL are Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Mauritania, Kenya, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
Although, there are a vast list of different sign languages quite different from ASL.
BSL (British Sign Language) used in UK.
LSQ (Quebec Sign Language) used in some areas of Canada (In this case you can notice that even in the same country sometimes co-exist more than one sign language).
LSA (Argentinian Sign Language) used in Argentina, and so on.
The list is very long and you can google “sign language” and have an extended list of it, and even check the differences out.
I wouldn’t say most common, but most extended is ASL.