Fino a quell’Irish Sign Language (ISL) è unico tra le lingue dei segni per avere diverse versioni di genere, con uomini e donne che usano segni diversi per le stesse parole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sign_Language
di fartingbeagle
Fino a quell’Irish Sign Language (ISL) è unico tra le lingue dei segni per avere diverse versioni di genere, con uomini e donne che usano segni diversi per le stesse parole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sign_Language
di fartingbeagle
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Did anyone know this? I knew ISL was different from ESL because the priests were educated on the Continent, but not different genders.
It was because there was a boys school and a girls school, and they were all educated in isolation from each other, so two dialects emerged.
ISL has roots in old French Sign Language (LSF), as does American Sign Language (ASL) and several others.
It has absorbed some signs from BSL (British Sign Language) and modern ASL but it’s very definitely its own language.
This use to be true back when boys and girls deaf schools where segregated, however no longer is, though most people in the deaf community (50+ especially) will know both signs for the same word.
Stupid question. Is ISL sign language in Irish, or sign language in English with an Irish twist?
I’ve wanted to learn sign language for the longest time just wondering.
For the same reason that there are white and black dialects of ASL: segregated schooling.