Re: CHAT: My new treasure
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 14:37 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
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> Thus speaks the Ethnologue:
>
> LYONS SIGN LANGUAGE: a language of France
> SIL code: LSG
> Population No estimate available.
> Classification Deaf sign language.
> Comments 250 miles from Paris, but difficult and little
> intelligibility
> with French Sign Language.
>
> Not exactly a wealth of details, but still, something must underlie
> this.
>
I would rather think the contrary, especially when looking specifically for it
on the web and discovering that the University of Lyon teaches definitely LSF,
not a specific Lyon sign language. And all the links I've looked in French
about Sign language emphasize the fact that though the LSF is not completely
unitary (one was talking about the different manners to sign "family" in Paris
or Bordeaux or other places in France), the differences are comparable to
differences of dialect in the same country: a funny "accent", but nothing to
prevent intelligibility. In short, French deaf people themselves say that there
is only one French sign language, with some dialectical variation across the
country. Maybe we could trust them in that.
Christophe.
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