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Dessa
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There is an "other" for the primary language, but I do find it mildly offensive that American Sign Language, or ANY Sign Language, is not listed as an option in any of the questions. While not being something that has a written form, it is still a quite wide-spread language in this country, and many countries have their own form of Sign Language (side note: ASL is actually closer to French Sign Language than English Sign Language, ironically).
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dtm42
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I hear ya, Dessa. One would think that, on a language survey, sign language would be included. Though there is a write-in box, it's insensitive to leave sign language out of the main list. It's not like sign languages are unrecognised or fringe languages. Heck, NZ Sign Language is one of the three official languages of New Zealand.
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Tempest
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The list is the top 50 languages worldwide. We didn't "decide" what languages to include. Leaving ASL out was no more insensitive than leaving Igbo out... except more people speak Igbo as their primary language than ASL. -t |
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