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<DIV>Sign langauges are not always typically associated with a country, as there are sign languages that have originated in a single village as well, or one country has several sign languages. Take Canada, where American SL is used, as well as Québéc SL, and native sign languages as well. Similar for Belgium, which has two signed language, not only because of politics.</DIV>
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<DIV>And just thinking about names for language in general: did people not find it a big problem to name languages after the people who use them in the past? There is plenty of literature about languages whose name in that language means 'people' or something of that kind. No one seemed to be wanting to abbreviate, code or change that. As Dimitris Mavreas pointed out, many sign langauges have a signed name for the language. It would be nice if someone came up with a simple way to print the signs used for a specific sign language in a text. Although it wouldn't solve everything, but at least the acronym problem ;-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Joke Schuit</DIV>
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