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• Just like there are different spoken languages, hundreds of sign languages
are said to be existing.

• French Sign language and Plains Indian Sign Language are said to be the
early forms of sign languages.
• Nicaraguan Sign Language is said to be the recently originated sign language,
coming into picture only 40 years ago.
• The Indo-Pakistani Sign Language is said to be the sign language of India,
Pakistan, and Bangladesh. There are a number of books, websites, online
courses and apps to learn the same.
• People around the world have started recognizing and understanding sign
languages and so the disabled do not feel isolated.
• There are in fact special dictionaries as well for sign languages. These are
said to be complex languages.
• Sign languages may be independent and completely different from spoken
languages.
• The grammar which may be used in sign language is different from spoken
languages.
• Videos, animations, pictures, special classes and books can be used to learn
sign languages.

The categories
There are three categories of sign languages

• Deaf sign languages which are used by deaf communities.
• Auxilliary sign languages. Auxillary means additional. So these are used in
addition to the oral languages. For example, signs used to make babies
understand.
• Manually coded languages are the third category. Hand-mouth systems,
finger spellings etc are included in this category.

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