
Conlangery #129: Non-Vocal Languages
Conlangery Podcast
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The Importance of Sign Language in Learning ASL
There is a black ASL dialect. Just like the AAV, there's also same style with sign language. They pick a lot of their signs are accustomed to the speech patterns and kind of phrases that come out of black communities in the US. You can even have modifications, but they'll still end up in ASL order. The key problem when it comes to writing down a signlanguage is that you can just do certain things which are incredibly inconvenient for writing. There has been attempts to create writing systems for ASL, but none of them caught on things like sign writing and stuff. It might be harder than you expect to represent it. And then probably the most difficult thing, incidentally
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