Eli5 Why are there different variants of sign language? Couldn’t one form become universal and be understood by all people regardless of language?

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Eli5 Why are there different variants of sign language? Couldn’t one form become universal and be understood by all people regardless of language?

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What’s cool is that it’s easier for a deaf American to understand a deaf Frenchman than it is a British deaf person! Sign languages have families blood spoken languages, they just aren’t at parity with them.

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