Citation for this map?

[Brian Riley]

Also, Emily, doing that same Google search (on the key words "sign language families" and 
then click on "Images" ) turns up this map which apparently appeared a few weeks earlier than the other map and is labeled as the contributor's own work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sign_language_families.svg


A first guess, then, would be that the map you mentioned (link in previous e-mail, below) was done after
 seeing this one (link above), and perhaps they decided to make a similar map with "corrected" information.

--Brian
http://ucdavis.academia.edu/BrianRiley




From: "Adam Schembri" <A.Schembri at LATROBE.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Citation for this map?
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 04:39:43 +0000
To: SLLING-L at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
Reply-To: "Adam Schembri" <A.Schembri at LATROBE.EDU.AU>

 

Emily,
The map is not entirely accurate. If you read the existing 
literature on sign language families (for example, some of the 
discussion about sign languages in different parts of the world in the 
Cambridge University Press volume edited by Diane Brentari, 2010), it is clear that there are some misunderstandings of the current state of knowledge (which in itself is patchy) in the map, such as the 
suggestion that BSL and Swedish Sign Language are related (not accurate, as far as I am aware).

Regards,
Adam
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From: Brian Riley <brianriley4 at YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Citation for this map?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:23:35 -0700
To: <SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU>
Reply-To: Brian Riley <brianriley4 at yahoo.com> 

  
If you do a Google search on the key words "sign language families" and 
then click on "Images" on the horizontal menu bar, you will see this 
result:


http://wuglife.tumblr.com/post/49869768723/thelegalizeddeafies-map-of-the-principal-sign

Here's an enlarged version:

http://wuglife.tumblr.com/image/49869768723


I
 don't know one way or the other, of course, but that map could have been made by 
an amateur who simply gleaned a little info from the 
Internet.


--Brian




From: "emily shaw" <emilypottershaw at yahoo.com>
>
>Subject: Citation for this map?
>
>Date: March 31, 2014 at 10:39:44 AM PDT
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>To: SLLING-L at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
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>Reply-To: "emily shaw" <emilypottershaw at yahoo.com>
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>
>Greetings,
>
>
>I am sending a request for a colleague in France who is looking for the author of this language map (see attached) - specifically, the actual citation for the map and also whether the author is a linguist.
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>Thanks in advance!
> 
>Emily Shaw, Ph.D., CI/CT
>American Sign Language/English Interpreter
>301.257.1207 (cell)
>301.273.3844 (fax)
>emilypottershaw at gmail.com
>
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