Wikipedia's list of sign languages: who?

Adam Frost adam at frostvillage.com
Wed Dec 17 16:59:55 UTC 2008


Your guess is as good as mine as the person in the history that wrote  
it last August didn't signin, this only leaving an ip address.  
Hopefully someone here knows or is the one who wrote it.

Adam

On Dec 17, 2008, at 6:09 AM, "Schuit, J.M." <J.M.Schuit at uva.nl> wrote:

> Hello all,
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> Recently I googled an Inuktitut term that was supposed to refer to  
> sign language, and Google gave me directions to a Wikipedia article  
> with a List of Sign Languages. Does anyone know who wrote this? It’s 
>  for this reason:
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> To my amazement, this article listed Inuit Sign Language as well as  
> Inuktitut Sign Language, each with a different Inuktitut translation  
> (or I guess it is an Inuktitut translation as I do not know the  
> language). As I am working on a description of (parts of) the Inuit  
> Sign Language used in Canada, I would be interested to know to which  
> languages the labels Inuit SL and Inuktitut SL apply, and where the  
> Inuktitut translation comes from. Does anyone on the SLLing List  
> know who wrote this Wikipedia article? I would like to ask him/her  
> where the information about these two languages came from, as I had  
> not come across it before.
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> This is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages
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> I hope anyone can inform me!
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> Best,
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> Joke Schuit
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> Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication
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> Universiteit van Amsterdam
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> Spuistraat 210
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> 1012VT Amsterdam
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