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Valerie Sutton Date: Tue Aug 17, 1999 3:41 pm Subject: Re: How many signers in the world? | |
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> The number we usually throw around in Taiwan is 40,000 Deaf people out >of a total population of about 21,000,000. Actually, that number was based >on the old .2 percent of the population being Deaf. I believe the figure >you were thinking about, Valerie, was .2 percent. *Two* percent would be >one out of every fifty people! I don't think so. One out of every 500 >people sounds about right. > > - Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks Wayne - are you saying that you guess that one out of every 500 people in the world use a signed language? Like interpreters, teachers, parents, hearing siblings, hearing people interested in learning signs, and the Deaf communities? Valerie ;-) _____________________________________________________________ Valerie Sutton SignWriting List SignWriting Web Site SignWriting List Archives https://www.SignWriting.org https://www.egroups.com/group/sw-l Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting...Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization...Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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