PHILIPPINES and NETHERLANDS

[Shane Ó hEorpa]

Hey u

Trude Schermer, the director of the Dutch Sign Language Centre (NGC), was
saying that the preferred term is "Sign Language of the Netherlands" but I
told her most sign linguists said either Dutch Sign Language or NGT - with
the trend going on in the EU, we tend to use the original abbreviations -
for instance, how will we differ between Greek and German if we call it GSL
for both?

German = DGS for instance

Greek = ENG I think - let me double check - yeah its ENG 

French = LSF

Flanders = VGT

So on

We usually use the term "NGT" when talking about Dutch Sign Language (or
Sign Language of the Netherlands)

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw-
> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] On Behalf Of Suzanne Pach
> Sent: 15 August 2005 10:25
> To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> Subject: Re: [sw-l] PHILIPPINES and NETHERLANDS
> 
> Hi Valerie,
> 
> Thank you for changing the name. Well, I'm not such an
> expert of how we are called over the world, but Dutch
> sounds the most natural to me (though of course it is a
> bit strange, probably they just confused us with our
> neighbours.. so then they had to be called german... :)
> 
> Suzanne.
> 
> Ps Did anybody ever use SignWriting to write down juglling
> movements?
> 
> > SignWriting List
> > August 11, 2005
> >
> > For the Philippines and the Netherlands...
> >
> > I have now changed the names of your sign languages on the
> > directory
> > page of SignPuddle...other changes need to be made on
> > other
> > SignPuddle pages, but right now, this web page has been
> > changed...
> > (see attached diagram)
> >
> > SignPuddle Directory
> > http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
> >
> > When I lived in Denmark, I had been told that I should
> > never use the
> > words Holland or Dutch...that the people of the
> > Netherlands preferred
> > the words ... the Netherlands ... so I dropped the words
> > Holland and
> > Dutch from my English vocabulary...so it seems strange to
> > call it
> > Dutch Sign Language, but Suzanne of course knows best...I
> > am only a
> > foreigner when it comes to these names, and trends change
> > too...I was
> > told that, back in the 1970's!....So I am out-of-date...
> > ;-)
> >
> > Val ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>