The Evolution of Sign Language
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Updated: 5 Nov 2017
By: David Heineman
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Earliest recorded monastic sign list
Found in Cluny (Modern day France)Reforms in the church led
to the enforcement of the Rule
(Benedictine Reform)Monastic list created in
Hirsau (Modern Day Germany)First Anglo-Saxon monastic
list createdPortugese monastic sign
list createdJuan Pablo Bonet publishes:
Reducción de Las Letras
y Arte para Enseñar a
Hablar a Los MudosSign Language in
Britain StandardizedPopular Englisgh writer John
Bulwer wrote about a deaf man
that could talk because he was
proficient in sign languageGeorge Dalgarno publsihed
Didascalocophus, showing
a alphabet where pointing to
different areas of the hand
meant different lettersDigiti Lingua published:
Showed letters from earlier aplabets.
Became the basis of most British
Sign LanguagesJohn Bulwer Created his own
alphabet know as a ChirologiaFrench Revolution
made the government
more open to helping
the deafL'Épée created a Paris
School for the deafHelen Keller born, goes
on to shift public perception
on the deaf and blindL'Épée got his version
of sign language to be
standard in FranceMilan International Congress of
Teachers for the Deaf-Mute
decided L'Épée's language
was obsolete and banned it from
all schoolsFabius law was passed
in the French parliment, recognizing
L'Épée's language and helped contribute
resources to deaf educationAmerican School for the Deaf
founded in Hartford, ConnecticutWilliam Stokoe brought back using hands
in sign language and got ASL to be
recognized as the standard deaf languageCivil Rights Movement
helped support deaf equalityPeriods
Monastic sign language was not meant for the deaf and was only used
to keep periods of scilenceVery little words other than nouns; Most lists had a handful of verbs and adjectivesSign language was used by the deaf, but wasn't widely used and varied between people.
A larger use was for secret communicationIt looked a lot like what it does today, with modifiers
and conjunctions, but with a small vocabulary; alphabet
developedGreat shift all over the world seeing deafness as
an illness instead of a product of being dumbSign language and its alphabet are standardized to what they are today, where every
word in English could be said in sign languageSign language is used by almost every deaf person as a means of communicationDevelopment of deaf
communities in New England
like Martha's Vineyard, Henniker
and the Sandy River ValleySign language as something used
by hands suppressed because
many believed learning how to
read lips and talk was superior
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