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deird1 ([personal profile] deird1) wrote2016-01-09 08:38 am
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So, I knew that ASL had a different alphabet to Auslan. (Our alphabet is two-handed; ASL is one-handed.)

What I hadn't realised until today was that they have different numbers as well.

I looked up the ASL alphabet today, and found this:




As an Auslan person, that bottom row looks to me like:
0, 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 3 ...followed by words I don't know.


No larger point. I just find it interesting that counting can be so different in different countries.
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[personal profile] velvetwhip 2016-01-08 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It's weird that ASL and Auslan are foreign languages to each other when Americans and Australians both speak English.


Gabrielle
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[personal profile] velvetwhip 2016-01-08 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Well I learned something new today.


Gabrielle
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[personal profile] angelikitten 2016-01-09 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I thought ASL developed from the French Sign Language (LSF)?
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[personal profile] shehasathree 2016-01-09 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Some linguistics refer to the BANZSL (British, Aus+NZ Sign Language) language group (or even consider each a dialect of the same language). American Sign Language is completely unrelated. It just happens to share a writing system with a bunch of other (English( Sign Languages.