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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.

Date: 2016-01-09 04:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] shehasathree
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.

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