LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.09.10 (03) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: jannie.lawn <jannie.lawn at ntlworld.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2003.09.09 (15) [E]

Sandy Fleming wrote on "Sign Languages"
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I've been looking at a list of sign languages which have been submitted for
ISO coding. I've never seen such a full list of sign languages and found the
mere listing of them very interesting. Apparently there's an "Old Kentish
Sign Language", which might explain some of the remarks I've heard from deaf
people about problems with signing in Kent! And apparently the Vatican has
its own monastic sign language. The full list was in a PDF document at
http://www.signwriting.org/library/pdf/pdf005.html (it's document 33), but I
thought it would be interesting to extract those sign languages which could
be said to be Lowlands-related. I doubt if the list is  complete.
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There is another one that I learned in Britain c. 22 years ago.  It was
called the Paget Gorman Signing System, but it functioned as a sign
language.  The school where I learned it switched in Sept. '85 to Makaton, a
simplified form of British Sign Language.  The reason was, that the pupils
could not understand others (using British Sign Language) when they left the
school where they had been during their 'primary school' years.  Paget
Gorman apparently wasn't widely used.  I don't know if anyone still uses it.
Groetjes, Jannie Lawn-Zijlstra

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