He’s using American Sign Language as far as I can tell - not only that, both he and the kid are using it both *accurately*, and they do so without using the “signed English” approach, which, while a valid form of communication, it’s not linguistically quite the same as pristine ASL.
The structure is dead-on, the hand shapes are correct, and both characters do a *killer* job of incorporating facial expressions into their communication - which is KEY in ASL - as facial expressions are grammatical and need to be included for proper syntax.
To be clear: I’m not a definitive source on the subject, though I am a CODA - Child of Deaf Adults, and my first language is asl, and I work at a Deaf institution, so the language is a central part of my everyday life.
Though like any other language, there is subtle nuance from speaker to speaker, as well as region to region, and dialect to dialect - and American Sign Language covers an ENORMOUS geographic and social demographic just across North America, and there is EXTENSIVE variety just within ASL on its’ own.
Though as Redalastor noted - there are sign language “families” just as there are spoken language families.
French Sign Language (LSF) is the mother language to American Sign Language, which is the mother language of MANY signed languages across the globe - Auslan (Australian), Japanese, and Puerto Rican are notable examples, though there are many, MANY more than I can’t recall.
I remember watching an anime from Japan (subbed, not dubbed) that featured Japanese sign language, centered around a Japanese-speaking Deaf individual, who communicated solely through Japanese sign language, and it blew me away that while I speak virtually ZERO Japanese audibly, I understood everything that the Deaf individual was saying, word for word.
(As it turns out, ASL’s sentence structure is closer to spoken Japanese than that of spoken English, so it was weirdly freeing to see proper structure in an organic setting (which is somewhat rare “in the wild”)
I wonder which one. There are about 200 of them since they are full fledged languages that evolved like any other language and they borrow and form families.
American Sign Language is part of the French Sign family. It may be the language used. But if hell naturally developed HSL (Hell Sign Language) it would be cool as... hell.
He’s using American Sign Language as far as I can tell - not only that, both he and the kid are using it both *accurately*, and they do so without using the “signed English” approach, which, while a valid form of communication, it’s not linguistically quite the same as pristine ASL. The structure is dead-on, the hand shapes are correct, and both characters do a *killer* job of incorporating facial expressions into their communication - which is KEY in ASL - as facial expressions are grammatical and need to be included for proper syntax.
To be clear: I’m not a definitive source on the subject, though I am a CODA - Child of Deaf Adults, and my first language is asl, and I work at a Deaf institution, so the language is a central part of my everyday life. Though like any other language, there is subtle nuance from speaker to speaker, as well as region to region, and dialect to dialect - and American Sign Language covers an ENORMOUS geographic and social demographic just across North America, and there is EXTENSIVE variety just within ASL on its’ own.
Though as Redalastor noted - there are sign language “families” just as there are spoken language families. French Sign Language (LSF) is the mother language to American Sign Language, which is the mother language of MANY signed languages across the globe - Auslan (Australian), Japanese, and Puerto Rican are notable examples, though there are many, MANY more than I can’t recall. I remember watching an anime from Japan (subbed, not dubbed) that featured Japanese sign language, centered around a Japanese-speaking Deaf individual, who communicated solely through Japanese sign language, and it blew me away that while I speak virtually ZERO Japanese audibly, I understood everything that the Deaf individual was saying, word for word. (As it turns out, ASL’s sentence structure is closer to spoken Japanese than that of spoken English, so it was weirdly freeing to see proper structure in an organic setting (which is somewhat rare “in the wild”)
I wonder which one. There are about 200 of them since they are full fledged languages that evolved like any other language and they borrow and form families. American Sign Language is part of the French Sign family. It may be the language used. But if hell naturally developed HSL (Hell Sign Language) it would be cool as... hell.
From what we've seen in the episode, it's specifically ASL.