who was this person?
One of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language.
Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian
was one of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language. 
when was asl recognized as an official language UNANSWERABLE who created it? Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet how is it classified? It brought together Old French Sign Language, various village sign languages, and home sign systems; ASL was created in that situation by language contact. do you know what percentage of the population uses it? UNANSWERABLE is there a stigma to it? Stigmas associated with sign languages and the use of sign for educating children often lead to the absence of sign during periods in children's lives when they can access languages most effectively. what is its syntax? ASL is a subject–verb–object (SVO) language, but various phenomena affect that basic word order. Basic SVO sentences are signed without any pauses do you know how many people use sign language? Between 250,000 and 500,000 are there different varieties? Yes, mutual intelligibility among ASL varieties is high, and the variation is primarily lexical. what are the properties of s-v-o? Subject–verb–object languages almost always place relative clauses after the nouns which they modify and adverbial subordinators before the clause modified, with varieties of Chinese being notable exceptions. can you give me a few examples? "The dog bit Andy" and "Andy bit the dog" mean two completely different things, while, in case of "Bit Andy the dog", it may be difficult to determine whether it's a complete sentence or a fragment, with "Andy the dog" the object and an omitted/implied subject. what is fingerspelling in asl? A form of borrowing, a linguistic process wherein words from one language are incorporated into another. what is phonology? Each sign in ASL is composed of a number of distinctive components, generally referred to as parameters which are the phonemes. what is morphology? ASL has a rich system of verbal inflection, which involves both grammatical aspect: how the action of verbs flows in time—and agreement marking. can this language be written? Yes. Although there is no well-established writing system for ASL, written sign language dates back almost two centuries. what proof is there, that the writing goes back 200 years? The first systematic writing system for a sign language seems to be that of Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian, developed in 1825.
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Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian [SEP] Introduction
Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian (b. August 4, 1789 at Pointe-à-Pitre (also written: Ponte-à-Pitre), Guadeloupe; d. February 24, 1839 Pointe-à-Pitre) was one of the first hearing educators in France to achieve native-level fluency in French Sign Language. He wrote an important book titled "Mimographie," which was published in 1825, which utilized a method of writing signs.