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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Because people from different regions developed sign language individually. A person’s culture also plays into it – for example, some hand gestures that are rude in one country are not rude in another.

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