do you know how many people use sign language?
Between 250,000 and 500,000
American Sign Language
between 250,000 and 500,000
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
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American Sign Language [SEP] Population
Counting the number of ASL signers is difficult because ASL users have never been counted by the American census. The ultimate source for current estimates of the number of ASL users in the United States is a report for the National Census of the Deaf Population (NCDP) by Schein and Delk (1974). Based on a 1972 survey of the NCDP, Schein and Delk provided estimates consistent with a signing population between 250,000 and 500,000. The survey did not distinguish between ASL and other forms of signing; in fact, the name "ASL" was not yet in widespread use. Incorrect figures are sometimes cited for the population of ASL users in the United States based on misunderstandings of known statistics.