A/FSL Cognates
"Today, linguists estimate that there may be as much as 58 percent cognates for a sample of 872 modern ASL and FSL words (Lane, 1987:55). Modern British Sign Language and ASL, on the other hand, are almost mutually incomprehensible."
-A Short Hostory of ASL
[Excerpt from Sherman Wilcox & Phyllis Wilcox, Learning to See: American Sign Language as a Second Language. In press, Gallaudet University Press.]
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/9672/HistoryASL.htm
Mostly recording for my own purposes. I've been wondering if someone had done this. Next step is to work out what we can about the patterns of regular change each language has developed along since OFSL. Then see if we can reconstruct any of MVSL
-A Short Hostory of ASL
[Excerpt from Sherman Wilcox & Phyllis Wilcox, Learning to See: American Sign Language as a Second Language. In press, Gallaudet University Press.]
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/9672/HistoryASL.htm
Mostly recording for my own purposes. I've been wondering if someone had done this. Next step is to work out what we can about the patterns of regular change each language has developed along since OFSL. Then see if we can reconstruct any of MVSL