<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Barbara,<div><br></div><div>I'm a PhD researcher at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) working on sign language recognition legislation. I have accurate info for Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. I will send this to you in a separate document.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone can provide info for Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador and Panama, I would be very grateful as well!</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Maartje De Meulder</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Op 3-jan.-2014, om 19:36 heeft Barbara Gerner De Garcia <<a href="mailto:barbara.gerner.de.garcia@GALLAUDET.EDU">barbara.gerner.de.garcia@GALLAUDET.EDU</a>> het volgende geschreven:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I am trying to create an accurate list of Sign Languages in Latin America recognized by their governments. According to the
WFD’s 2009 report <i style="">Deaf People and Human
Rights</i>, the following Latin American countries recognize the sign language
used by Deaf people in the country:<span style="">
</span>Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico,
Panama, Venezuela. Furthermore, I found that Chile has since 2010 (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile,
2013), and Uruguay since 2001 (Republica Oriental del Uruguay, n.d.). I am not confident that the list from WFD is 100% accurate as I have come across some inaccuracies in the 2009 report. Any help or suggestions are welcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Barbara Gerner de Garcia<br></span></p>
<br>--<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Mike Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com" target="_blank">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>a group of us sign language researchers, mostly based in Nepal and India, have been asked to write up an article on "Sign Languages in South Asia" for a NEW encyclopedia of deaf studies.<br>
<br></div>As members of the group focuses on Sign languages of Nepal and India (although among us we also have soem experience with a couple other neighboruing sign languages), we are interested in collecting basic information on Sign Languages of the other South Asian countries (in order that the article can have a bit of "balance" ... and to balance decades of misleading info regarding the relation between sign languages of the region (e.g. Nepali Sign Language is clearly NOT closely related to IPSL).<br>
<br></div>We already have info from researchers on SL of the Maldives, and have some materials as well (varying qauntity and quality) on sign languages in Pakistan (esp Karachi) and Sri lanka... but can always do with corroborating (or opposing) info.<br>
<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, we have enough info on the various so-called "village sign languages" of the subcontinent.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Anyone with first-hand linguistically informed knowledge of any of the remaining sign languages (especially: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan), <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>as the word limit for the article is quite low (1,000 words), the following basic info is mostly what is required:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">1) what is the name of the sign lanuage (in local language(s)<br>
2) how standardized is the sign language<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">3) how different is it (lexically, and/or grammatically) from neighbouring sign languages, and from British Sign Language and/or American Sign Language<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">4) is there a dictionary for the sign language, and if so, how many lexical items are in the dictionary<br>5) what research (if any) is there in/on the sign language<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
6) what finger spelling system(s) is/are generally used within the Deaf community?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">thanks to all for any help you can provide<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">mike || U C > || мика || माईक || মাঈক || માઈક || ਮਾਈਕ || மாஇக || マイク || მაიკ || ማይክ<br>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br> (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))<br> (new position to be announced shortly!)<br>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>"People interested only in the bottom line, seem to have forgotten that the stars are in the oposite direction" (anon)<br>
-------<br>Mos u fshi si miza nën bishtin e kalit.
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia, Professor <br>Department of Education<br>Gallaudet University<br>800 Florida Ave NE<br>Washington, DC 20002-3695<br><br>Phone: 202-651-5207
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