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From: cdvnsp@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Larry Nehring)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ASL--roots and relation to other languages
Summary: French, Dutch, Spanish, Nicaraguan SL
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Date: 27 Nov 90 20:42:15 GMT
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Index Number: 11971

In article <15875@bunker.UUCP>, cnorman@ucsd!weber.ucsd.edu
(Cyndi Norman) writes...
>Index Number: 11966
> 
>Someone asked about worldwide signing systems so I will give an answer
>based on my background in linguistics (I am hearing and sign at a
>conversational level--though trying to learn more).
> 
>[Remainder of quote deleted]
> 
>I can give more details to anyone who might be interested.  I'd also love
>to hear about other non-ASL sign languages (as well as ASL, of course).
>

I am trying to remember all of the ASL history that I have learned, but
I am having some trouble. . .
FSL was brought to the US by T. H. Gallaudet and/or Laurent Clerc in
an attempt to standardize all of the Home-sign dialects that were forming
in the US.

I will try to get more specific info from my notes and teachers and post.

If anyone else has more (esp. from Gallaudet, CSUN, or NTID) please post, I
think that this would be a good place to share info and clear up
misconceptions.

Although I would prefer the newsgroup NOT be named Handicap, I think that it is
not applicable to most aspects of deafness.  Perhaps a newsgroup on Deaf
Culture exists ? (QQ GA TO SK)

LARRY NEHRING
NTID @ RIT
via Chris