When I was a kid, one of my neighbors was deaf. He would always talk to his parents in sign language and I became infatuated with watching how this language worked. I always told myself that I would try to learn it and be able to talk with him. Unfortunately I was only able to pick up a few things because it is a very difficult language to learn. I still want to learn more about sign language and be able to use it.
Sign language is the major form of communication in the deaf community today. With sign language, deaf people who would have difficulty speaking and learning language like people who can hear are able to communicate as efficiently and seamlessly. Since the beginning of human communication, sign language has changed and evolved into the system that people see today.
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In early human history, humans used simple sign language to express basic ideas. The human race uses hand and facial gestures to enhance ideas in communication. In ancient times, deaf people were mistreated and basically had no rights.
In the 1500's, Pedro Ponce de Leon, a Benedictine monk, created his own form of sign language to bypass his "vow of silence". This form of sign language may have been then taught to deaf children later on. And in 1620, Juan Pablo Bonet wrote a sign language dictionary that outlined how to learn sign language and contained the first sign language alphabet.
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