HELP ME PLEASE!!! I'm trying to do my senior project on the differences in sign languages around the world. All I have right now is about 15 manuel alphabets. I'm almost resorting to just using that and then showing the difference between ASL and Signed English. So, and advise/phrases I could use, just a couple is fine.
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I know ASL and very little British Sign Language, but I know that the signs are so different that one signer would not be able to understand another. For example, BSL history is ASL nice, BSL boy is ASL false, etc. Also, I know that in Kenyan Sign Language, the sign for school is the ASL equivalent of table. This is why gestures become so important!
And the differences between ASL and SEE are pretty drastic, if that's what you want to focus on. Endings of words, initialized signs, tense, plurals…you definitely would have a LOT to work with.