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Re: Non-spoken colangs?

From:Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>
Date:Friday, April 25, 2003, 14:45
Stone Gordonssen wrote:

> I'm curious to know whether anyone here has experimented with how > language > might develop, and what its "grammr" might be for an isolated race > which is > deaf.
Have you heard of Nicararguan(sp?) Sign Language? I understand it was spontaneously created by deaf children in a school there (unlike, say, Auslan, which has its roots in British Sign Language). I saw an interesting PDF on the web about it some time ago; you might want to google. Tristan <kesuari@...> "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." - Alan Perlis