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History of Sign Language.
Sign language has been around since the sixteenth century, but then at that time it was very different.
It was more like a set of gestures for some things, but now it is a real language with grammatical structures and its own lexicon, because the people who used it changed it.
Dat laatste stukje van de zin zou ik in een aparte zin zetten, zoiets: That's because the people using sign language have changed it. (of iets dergelijks)
Charles-Michel de l’Epée has also (hier zeg je 'also', maar wie nog meer was er belangrijk, dat zeg je nergens) been very important for the development of Sign Language. Charles-Michel de l’Epée, also known as the Father of the Deaf, was a Frenchman. He lived in the eighteenth century in Paris and he helped poor, deaf people in Paris with communication. He did this because he had learned sign language from his two deaf sisters and because he had decided to dedicate his life to helping the deaf.
He came from a wealthy family, so he was able to found set up a shelter for deaf people with his own money. Soon this shelter became a school for sign language. l’Epée also developed a complicated system of Sign Language which was rather complicated, because as he used many signs for one word if it had more than one interpretation.
It was for the first time that sign language had been actively taught and now could hearing people could learn it too. Which made a huge difference to the deaf.
Now, most countries have their own version of sign language, because languages continue evolving.
International sign language does also exist, so deaf people could can organize international events.
Ik heb het simpel gehouden.
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Ik klop op de deur van de steen. / 'Ik ben het, doe open.' // 'Ik heb geen deur,' zegt de steen.
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