Diese irische Gebärdensprache (ISL) ist unter den Gebärdensprachen einzigartig, um unterschiedliche geschlechtsspezifische Versionen zu haben, wobei Männer und Frauen unterschiedliche Zeichen für dieselben Wörter verwenden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sign_Language
Von fartingbeagle
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Did anyone know this? I knew ISL was different from ESL because the priests were educated on the Continent, but not different genders.
It was because there was a boys school and a girls school, and they were all educated in isolation from each other, so two dialects emerged.
ISL has roots in old French Sign Language (LSF), as does American Sign Language (ASL) and several others.
It has absorbed some signs from BSL (British Sign Language) and modern ASL but it’s very definitely its own language.
This use to be true back when boys and girls deaf schools where segregated, however no longer is, though most people in the deaf community (50+ especially) will know both signs for the same word.
Stupid question. Is ISL sign language in Irish, or sign language in English with an Irish twist?
I’ve wanted to learn sign language for the longest time just wondering.
For the same reason that there are white and black dialects of ASL: segregated schooling.
I heard that there was a belief deafness was genetic, so they created two different languages so deaf men and women couldn’t talk to eachother and spread the deafness through their children. And later the two were combined into one.
Medical information back in the day was desperate