That is to say, there are variations across North America. and Canada or Alberta and Minnesota, for example. Variation between California and New York or Alberta and Ontario is generally no more different than between the U.S. Sometimes, a sign was thought to be from a region in Canada also turned up to be also from another region in the U.S. Then added, the Internet from the 1990s where Deaf signers exchanged online. Deaf visitors and travelers interacted from all over the places through events, festivals, etc. Plus, Gallaudet University (founded in 1864 formerly as "the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, then Gallaudet College) where students from all over North America attended and came back home with ASL variations. The language grew and spreaded through deaf schools (then residential schools for the deaf), Deaf teachers and students, Deaf families, and Deaf communities across North America. This post focuses on the particular language, American Sign Language (ASL).ĪSL is the primary language of Deaf people across North America long since the old days when the first deaf schools popped up all over North America, starting from the first permanent school for the deaf (1817) in Hartford, Connecticut. There are some types of variation: phonological, regional, gender-related, and few other types. "pop", "soft drink", and "soda" for the same thing or meaning). Variation is commonly defined as "a different way of saying the same thing" (e.g.
One of the areas in sociolinguistics that linguists study is variation in language. In sociolinguistics (the study of the relationship between language and society), linguists study interaction between linguistic and social variables and how language is used in various settings and situations. Language naturally changes over time and geography as found in all human languages (both signed and spoken) observed by linguists.
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