This is really interesting. But what does “possibly a member of French SL family” mean?
I was always curious, how much different are these?
Interesting case of Portugal.
So countries with the same colour understand each other?
Why does portugal have the swedish one?
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I’ve always thought it’d be really amazing if everyone was taught one specific sign language in school. It’d mean:
– wherever you go, you can communicate even if you don’t speak the (vocal) language
– you can communicate with deaf people (or those with limited hearing)
– you can talk in quiet spaces without disturbing people
– you can talk in really loud places without having to shout.
WTF Austria? Qu’est-ce que c’est?
So, when learning Sign Language as a german, would it be more useful and possibly to directly learn the french sign language even if I don´t know any french?
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So Austria does not use German Sign Language, but Poland does? Strange.
What’s up with Lithuania? Why is it different from everyone else?
It would be weird to be from the UK, go to France and suddenly nobody understands you.
The Azerbaijanis use the French system? Ironic
Danish sign language is spoken with a potato in each hand.
Northern Ireland uses both ISL and BSL.
Lend me a hand here, why won’t Azerbaijanis use the Turkish system and Austria the German one ?
Why is Poland speaking German?
So the majority of mute people actually speak FRENCH
they sign french? 🤮
They mostly use Irish sign language in Northern Ireland. All the people I interact with do anyways.
I just recently learned that there are more than one sign language. I thought that sign language was the same everywhere. Kind of like the Braille is the same everywhere, except the language-specific letters.
Fun fact – Sign language has regional dialects. Even though Im from the south, I sign with a northern dialect because my stage 1 teacher was a northerner [https://www.signsolutions.uk.com/are-there-different-accents-in-sign-language/](https://www.signsolutions.uk.com/are-there-different-accents-in-sign-language/)
So a deaf guy from Germany cant talk to a deaf guy from Sweden ?
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This is really interesting. But what does “possibly a member of French SL family” mean?
I was always curious, how much different are these?
Interesting case of Portugal.
So countries with the same colour understand each other?
Why does portugal have the swedish one?
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I’ve always thought it’d be really amazing if everyone was taught one specific sign language in school. It’d mean:
– wherever you go, you can communicate even if you don’t speak the (vocal) language
– you can communicate with deaf people (or those with limited hearing)
– you can talk in quiet spaces without disturbing people
– you can talk in really loud places without having to shout.
WTF Austria? Qu’est-ce que c’est?
So, when learning Sign Language as a german, would it be more useful and possibly to directly learn the french sign language even if I don´t know any french?
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So Austria does not use German Sign Language, but Poland does? Strange.
What’s up with Lithuania? Why is it different from everyone else?
It would be weird to be from the UK, go to France and suddenly nobody understands you.
The Azerbaijanis use the French system? Ironic
Danish sign language is spoken with a potato in each hand.
Northern Ireland uses both ISL and BSL.
Lend me a hand here, why won’t Azerbaijanis use the Turkish system and Austria the German one ?
Why is Poland speaking German?
So the majority of mute people actually speak FRENCH
they sign french? 🤮
They mostly use Irish sign language in Northern Ireland. All the people I interact with do anyways.
I just recently learned that there are more than one sign language. I thought that sign language was the same everywhere. Kind of like the Braille is the same everywhere, except the language-specific letters.
Fun fact – Sign language has regional dialects. Even though Im from the south, I sign with a northern dialect because my stage 1 teacher was a northerner [https://www.signsolutions.uk.com/are-there-different-accents-in-sign-language/](https://www.signsolutions.uk.com/are-there-different-accents-in-sign-language/)
So a deaf guy from Germany cant talk to a deaf guy from Sweden ?