: Why isn’t there an Universal Sign Language?

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: Why isn’t there an Universal Sign Language?

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Deaf people have been around forever regardless of culture/location/language, so sign language was developed independently in many places. Even if there was a universal sign language, populations tend to branch off with their own dialect and slang, and that happens with Sign too. So it would be difficult to maintain one truly universal language across the world, regardless of whether it’s spoken or visual.

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