Sign Language in in Nicaragua

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A Linguistic Big Bang 
For the first time in history, scholars are witnessing the birth of a 
language — a complex sign system being created by deaf children in Nicaragua. 
By LAWRENCE OSBORNE Photographs by SUSAN MEISELAS 

The New York Times Magazine
October 24, 1999

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