Why isn’t there a universal sign language? One that everyone around the world could learn so that they would be understood no matter where they lived, or travelled to? Who decided it was a better idea to have more than one?
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Why isn’t there a universal spoken language?
Why isn’t there a universal written language?
People make the mistake of thinking of sign language like “English, but with gestures”. It isn’t. It’s a group of languages, just like with spoken languages. There are different sign languages because different people in different places or different times developed different languages.
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