sign language lingua franca

[Mark A. Mandel]

>From LINGUIST List #12-3051
http://linguistlist.org/issues/12/12-3051.html#2

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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:50:20 +0800
From: fcosw5 <fcosw5 at mail.scu.edu.tw>
Subject: sign language lingua franca


A student of mine has asked if there is any international lingua
franca within the deaf community, as English currently serves among
the hearing?  When deaf people from a variety of countries encounter
each other, is there some more-or-less agreed-upon language they can
use to communicate with each other?

Best,
Steven

Steven Schaufele
Asst. Prof. Linguistics,
English Department, Soochow University
Taipei 11118, Taiwan, ROC