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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Aug 20, 1999 4:57 pm Subject: Re: Acronyms | |
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>I have just updated this to contain Valerie's Acronyms. There seems to be >some discrepency between what she provides and what SIL provides for >Canada, Hong Kong, India, and Pakistan. >Michael Everson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Michael and everyone - In regards to Indopakistan Sign Language, or IPSL, I was just following the suggestion of linguist Ulrike Zeshan: ~~~~~~~~~~ From: Ulrike Zeshan Subject: Re: Acronyms for Signed Languages To: SignWriting List Note that the political border between India and Pakistan is not a language border or even a dialect border between the sign language varieties on both sides. Even though there are dialect boundaries, they do certainly not coincide with the political border between India and Pakistan. In particular, sign language varieties in Pakistan and (at least) North-Western India are the same, with more variation in other parts of India, but probably still at the dialect level. I therefore use the term IPSL (Indopakistan Sign Language), as Angus has noted before. It may well turn out that sign language varieties in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are also similar enough to be classified as dialects, but this cannot be ascertained yet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie ;-) |
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