Poll of the Day > Sign Language: Is it the same in every community?

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I was just thinking about it. If I was to say.... sign "baking cookies" to a group of deaf people in a room from Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea and Russia, would everyone understand it, assuming they learned sign languages in those countries?

From Wikipedia:


It is not clear how many sign languages there are. A common misconception is that all sign languages are the same worldwide or that sign language is international. Aside from the pidgin International Sign, each country generally has its own, native sign language, and some have more than one (although there are also substantial similarities among all sign languages). The 2013 edition of Ethnologue lists 137 sign languages. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition, while others have no status at all.
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That's what I kind of figured. That's crazy to think about, having so many languages in this world, but having probably just as many signs.

It's how some random guy could get away faking it.
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there should just be one so it's like a universal language