: Why isn’t there an Universal Sign Language?

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: Why isn’t there an Universal Sign Language?

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The languages developed separately, and no one is willing to say “no, your language is the right one, we’ll use that”. People tried that with a spoken language, Esperanto, and I think that only exists in Duolingo now.

[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/927/)

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