On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
When people claim that deaf people are able to read and write in the
"dominant" language, they forget that this has never been a reason to deny
people their Wikipedia in their language. We do allow people who speak a
native American language their projects. Sign languages are as different
from the "dominant" language as native American languages are from Spanish,
Portuguese or English.
However, we do have a policy (for better or worse) that currently states
that:
"The proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a
viable
community and audience." [1]
I've yet to see any information indicating that SignWriting is a primary
mode
of communication for large groups of people, much less their native method
of communication.
-Chad
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy#Requisites