On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> I will be adding several other countries. One of them is "the Arabic
> Nations".
> I understand from you, that Arabian Sign Language is really one Sign
> Language with regional dialects. So we need the name of "Arabia" in
> SignWriting for our web page.
I don't exactly understand what you are saying, Valerie. Are you
saying that there is one sign language for all the Arab countries, with
different regional dialects? I haven't seen anything that suggests that
in what Mohamed has written so far. Everything I've heard about what
people sign in the various Arabic-speaking countries indicates that, to
the extent that we have any coherent information, it leans towards the
idea of unrelated sign languages, not dialects.
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-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
Linguistics Department
University of New Mexico
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