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Nicaraguan deaf children create language of their own
Thursday, October 14th, 2004
A generation ago, Nicaragua was one of the few countries in the world without a widely used sign language for the hearing impaired.
That changed in the late 1970s, when a group of deaf Nicaraguan children developed one of their own. Today, Nicaraguan Sign Language (linguists refer to it as ISN for “Idioma de Signos Nicaragense”) [...]
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