Universal Sign Language
Sign Language, in my opinion, is the most extraordinary language ever made. Sign language., in all likelihood, is the very first language ever "spoken" in the entire world and is now being used by the deaf in today's world. Sign Language is the communication between two or more people using different hand gestures to replace the spoken word. These hand gestures are used all over the world today, but the gestures vary according to location, just like the spoken word, creating variances in language, or barriers among separate communities.There are around 300 different types of sign language when really there should only be one, just like how it started in the beginning. We should see sign language as being a universal language based off of
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Many people, in a world like today, would see a person using sign language with complete disregard because they have impaired hearing or are deaf, identifying their hearing impairment as a symbol of lack of intelligence. What people don't realize is that Sign Language may have evolved into our language today. This sign language was later developed into a spoken language. For those who could not speak or hear, on the other hand, would continue using sign language. Long before sign language and spoken language were able to be accepted with each other, the impaired were poorly and inhumanely, often times institutionalized for being deaf. They had little or no rites. According to the Hebrew laws, around 1000 B.C., deaf and mute individuals could not be married unless signs showed that they were able to do so. Other laws showed that the people in the deaf community were not to be beaten like hearing people if they were in the wrong, mainly because they held the title of idiots. As the many years have passed, laws were set into place to …show more content…
As said previously in this essay, sign language might have been the very first "spoken" language of mankind, but as language changes, we see that only a select few still need to use sign language. These people are the deaf and/or mute. When someone is deaf or mute, they can neither hear nor speak, or often times, both. Using sign language helps these people to communicate at a much higher level than just pointing and grunting. Having many different types of sign language is almost like having different types of spoken languages. The only difference is that sign language doesn't always match up with how another language is spoken. As an article on worldwide sign language states, "Even though speakers of English can understand Americans, British, and Australian people equally, with some colloquial differences, signers in America, England, and Australia would be unable to understand each other because the signs are very different"(deafwebsites.com, 2013). It may be hard for someone who can hear to understand someone else who can speak, but it is a whole new world when it comes to sign language. It would be as if I walked up to a man who spoke and read English and held up a sign saying, "$?!*#+][.!", and then shrugging my shoulders as if I was asking him what it meant or if that was the question and I was waiting for a response. It would be easier to just describe an
Many people, in a world like today, would see a person using sign language with complete disregard because they have impaired hearing or are deaf, identifying their hearing impairment as a symbol of lack of intelligence. What people don't realize is that Sign Language may have evolved into our language today. This sign language was later developed into a spoken language. For those who could not speak or hear, on the other hand, would continue using sign language. Long before sign language and spoken language were able to be accepted with each other, the impaired were poorly and inhumanely, often times institutionalized for being deaf. They had little or no rites. According to the Hebrew laws, around 1000 B.C., deaf and mute individuals could not be married unless signs showed that they were able to do so. Other laws showed that the people in the deaf community were not to be beaten like hearing people if they were in the wrong, mainly because they held the title of idiots. As the many years have passed, laws were set into place to …show more content…
As said previously in this essay, sign language might have been the very first "spoken" language of mankind, but as language changes, we see that only a select few still need to use sign language. These people are the deaf and/or mute. When someone is deaf or mute, they can neither hear nor speak, or often times, both. Using sign language helps these people to communicate at a much higher level than just pointing and grunting. Having many different types of sign language is almost like having different types of spoken languages. The only difference is that sign language doesn't always match up with how another language is spoken. As an article on worldwide sign language states, "Even though speakers of English can understand Americans, British, and Australian people equally, with some colloquial differences, signers in America, England, and Australia would be unable to understand each other because the signs are very different"(deafwebsites.com, 2013). It may be hard for someone who can hear to understand someone else who can speak, but it is a whole new world when it comes to sign language. It would be as if I walked up to a man who spoke and read English and held up a sign saying, "$?!*#+][.!", and then shrugging my shoulders as if I was asking him what it meant or if that was the question and I was waiting for a response. It would be easier to just describe an