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Bill Reese Date: Tue Aug 28, 2001 3:35 am Subject: Re: Arabian Sign Language | ||||||||||||||||
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I was curious to see what a web search would turn up... here's an Arabic Sign Language page: https://www.dd2000.4mg.com/ Another page with an interesting discussion about arabic SL in 1996: https://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/7/7-1131.html Here's a bibliography page (boring but might be interesting to some): https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/Bibweb/Bibliography.html Starting here: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/Bibweb/F-Keywords.html You can search through for works on whatever you are looking for. I found references for papers for Jordanian Sign Language, Arabic Sign Language, Iran .... then I stopped. These are just references - not the works themselves. It does, however, indicate that there ARE some studies out there. Kurdish SL: https://www.gospelcom.net/meco/crossroads/oct00/signlang.html A Unified Arabic Sign Language? Interesting Article: https://uaeinteract.com/uaeint_main/newsreport/19990418.htm#EXPERTS CREATE UNIFIED ARABIC SIGN LANGUAGE Bill "Angus B. Grieve-Smith" wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Valerie Sutton wrote: > > > It made me think of the differences between Danish and Norwegian...Why > > can a Dane have a conversation with a Norwegian, without changing > > their language, and still understand each other? Some can do it better > > than others though, so I guess there is some flexibility involved with > > the two who are communicating.... > > Well, this gets us a little off-topic, but there's been an > interesting discussion on the Sign Language Linguistics List related to > this topic. > > Danish and Norwegian are fairly close, but beyond that, my > understanding is that the standard Norwegian (also called Bokmal) that is > taught in schools is not actually Norwegian, but Danish! In the past > century, there has been a movement to replace Bokmal with a mixture of > Norwegian dialects, called Nynorsk. I think that most Norwegians can > write in both Bokmal and Nynorsk. > > > Teachers oftentimes just work with the "day to day" communication and > > leave such analysis to the researchers.... > > In my experience, teachers sometimes spend more time criticizing > students for not conforming to a standard than letting students express > themselves. I should say that Cecelia, Lorraine and Kate haven't been > that way! > > > Is there any published research on the signed languages of the Arabic > > Nations? > > My friend and colleague Dan Parvaz mentioned a book on Tunisian > Sign Language. He's been to Jordan and collected some data on Jordanian > Sign Language, but I don't think he's published any of his findings yet. > I can ask him about it. > > -- > -Angus B. Grieve-Smith > Linguistics Department > University of New Mexico > | ||||||||||||||||
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