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3 forms of Sign Language
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3 forms of Sign Language
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Ashley E.
5/13/14
American Sign Language 1
Pidgin Signed English
Pidgin Signed English is a combination of American Sign Language and English. A pidgin is a language which develops naturally when people who do not know each other's language wish to communicate with each other.
Signing Exact English
Signing Exact English is a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries. (Wikipedia)
American Sign Language (ASL)
Facts
Sign language is not a universal language -- each country has its own sign language, and regions have dialects, much like the many languages spoken all over the world.
- A form of ASL has been used in the U.S. for over two hundred years.
- Signed Exact English (SEE) was developed in 1972 by Gerilee Gustason.
- With PSE, someone might sign most of the English words of a sentence and use approximately the English syntax.
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