Re: Sign language
| From: | Campbell Nilsen <cactus95@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 1, 2008, 13:15 |
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Call me a bit odd, but it seems to me that sign language might be a good candidate
for Proto-World. If you come up with a language, your friends are going to have
an easier time learning stylized gestures than arbitrary combinations of
phonemes.
"Define 'cynical'."-M. Mudd
----- Original Message ----
From: Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:42:45 AM
Subject: Re: sign language
Sai Emrys wrote:
> Though it's worth noting that the most famous - Martha's Vinyard - had
> IIRC common examples of *hearing* people communicating with each other
> in ASL, not just it being used where hearing status required it.
I'm probably being needlessly pedantic, but Martha's Vinyard had its own
sign language (now extinct), not ASL; its was one of a number of
contributers to ASL, though.
--
Tristan.
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