10 Facts About Sign language

Sign language suggested that the manual alphabet could be used by mutes, for silence and secrecy, or purely for entertainment.

Variations arise within a 'national' sign language which do not necessarily correspond to dialect differences in the national spoken language; rather, they can usually be correlated to the geographic location of residential schools for the deaf.

International Sign language, formerly known as Gestuno, is used mainly at international deaf events such as the Deaflympics and meetings of the World Federation of the Deaf.

International Sign language is a term used by the World Federation of the Deaf and other international organisations.

For example, when deaf children learning sign language try to express something but do not know the associated sign, they will often invent an iconic sign that displays mimetic properties.

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Village sign language is a local indigenous language that typically arises over several generations in a relatively insular community with a high incidence of deafness, and is used both by the deaf and by a significant portion of the hearing community, who have deaf family and friends.

On occasion, where the prevalence of deaf people is high enough, a deaf sign language has been taken up by an entire local community, forming what is sometimes called a "village sign language" or "shared signing community".

Sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the Great Plains region of North America before European contact.

Sign language is used as a form of alternative or augmentative communication by people who can hear but have difficulties using their voices to speak.

Sign language is sometimes provided for television programmes that include speech.