So, a while ago I said I’d do some #ISL videos. Here’s the second one. The alphabet. Video 2 is N to Z and video 1 is A to M. Video 1 in the precision toot. #SignLanguage #Deaf
@PapaBear Irish sign language? I'm actually surprised to see your fingerspelling having a fair overlap with the sign language family of LSF. I'd have expected you to use those crazy BSL fingerspellings considering they're close neighbours. 😃
(P.s. your alt text claims you're spelling A-M, which is obviously not the case here. 😅 )
@trinsec Thank you for the alt text correction. (Edited now). I copied and pasted and forgot to change! D’oh!
As for the crossover… there is actually a story that in the 1840’s a French SL teacher came to the newly opened deaf school in Dublin and saw ISL in action and being taught. He thought it was better than the then LSF and took it back to France to teach it. It then went over to the US. Another version of the story tells the opposite, where an Irish man went to France and bought LSF back to Ireland as they still used BSL. He then took it to the US.
@PapaBear I'm kinda inclined to go with the latter story, as I've never heard of LSF learning from ISL before. 😅
And then taking it to the US later seems kinda overboard to me as I've been taught it was Clerc who went to USA with Gallaudet to help develop ASL.
Might be a case of Irish pride there? 😅
Though we have our Dutch pride too! We have a deaf school BEFORE the Americans got theirs. ;)
@PapaBear
Hehe, I've tried watching some BSL programmes on the BBC a few decades ago (don't seem to see them much anymore? Granted, I don't watch that much TV anymore either), and I just couldn't understand all the two-handed fingerspellings. 😅
Seems to me their influence is limited to the Commonwealth. Not all of them though, I know Canada uses an ASL-derivation (if not ASL itself).
@trinsec I was Canada use ASL and LSQ. I know some ASL I think I’d get by. I think.
@PapaBear Yeah, I think so too. Same root family, so a fair overlap.
@trinsec Given the first ever school for the deaf was in France it amazed me a BSL signer told me the Uk was home all sign language. Yes dear, of course you were with your two handed alphabet! Although, BSL was the first I learned and some signs are so much more sensible than other sign languages.