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<br>Oh right. If there are only less than 10 users, the language is endangered. Can it apply the same to sign language? <div>I am asking because the number of signers can't be comparable to the speakers. <br><div><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:34:16 -0700<br>From: susan.fischer@RIT.EDU<br>Subject: Re: death of sign language<br>To: SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br><br>
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<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML">I believe that if there are were than 10 users, it is endangered but not dead.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Anthony Chong wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Times;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;orphans:2;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"><div dir="ltr"><br><br> Hello all, <div><br></div><div>I am curious. How will we be able to measure sign language death? Can we consider a language as death language if there less than 10 speakers? </div><div>Let me know. </div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div> </div></body>
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