Query Details
| Query Subject: |
sign language lingua franca
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| Author: | fcosw5 |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
A student of mine has asked if there is any international lingua franca within the deaf community, as English currently serves among the hearing? When deaf people from a variety of countries encounter each other, is there some more-or-less agreed-upon language they can use to communicate with each other? Best, Steven Steven Schaufele Asst. Prof. Linguistics, English Department, Soochow University Taipei 11118, Taiwan, ROC |
