What are the advantages of sign language?
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What are the advantages of sign language?
Sign Languages:
Sign languages, of which there are more than 300, are communication systems that use physical movement and gestures rather than spoken or written words. While different forms of signing were used for thousands of years, these were not officially codified languages that could be used beyond one's local community. That changed in the 1500s and 1600s when Spanish priests began to create standardized and documented sign languages.
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View this answerThe advantages of sign language depend on the circumstances surrounding its use. For members of the deaf community, the advantages of sign language...
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Chapter 9 / Lesson 31Sign language is used mainly in the deaf community and allows for communication visually through hand gestures. Discover the early forms of sign language, and examine its development into a formal language in the United States.