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"Karen A. Van Hoek" Date: Tue Feb 8, 2000 2:19 pm Subject: Re: Question About American Sign Language.... | ||||||||||||
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No kidding (HKSL isn't a dialect of ASL). The "Chinese Sign Language" often reported on from Salk Institute is actually Hong Kong Sign Language; I did some research on it myself, and it's very different than ASL. Karen van Hoek On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Wayne in Maine wrote: > Hope wrote: > > When I was in Hong Kong one time and bumped into some Deaf, they told > > me that they use ASL. However some of their signs are very > >different. > > I suspect it is a dialect of ASL, but there has been no testing done > > to prove or disprove it. > > When I last visited Hong Kong, I picked up the standard text for HKSL > and interacted a lot with the HK Deaf community. I certainly didn't see any > ASL there, although I won't say that individual ASL signs might have made > their way into HK recently. I would state, however, that HKSL is in no way > a dialect of ASL. > - Wayne | ||||||||||||
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