http://www.rid.org/terpfaq.html "Certain Caribbean countries and areas of Mexico also use ASL."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ "American Sign Language is the dominant sign language in the United States, English-speaking Canada and parts of Mexico."
According to the Wikipedia article, it's also used in the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Mauritania, Kenya, Madagascar, Zimbabwe.
Now, last time I checked, the primary language of the Philippines is Tagalog, that of Hong Kong is Cantonese, that of Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Madagascar, and Togo is French (also Sango in the Central African Republic, Arabic in Chad, Malagasy in Madagascar, and Ewe and Kabiye in Togo), and that of Mauritania is Hassaniyya.
Now, is it just me, or does it seem entirely unreasonable to have a single Wikipedia in ASL, English, Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, French, Sango, Arabic, Malagasy, Ewe, Kabiye, and Hassaniyya?
Mark
On 16/09/05, HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us HHamilto@doe.k12.ga.us wrote:
Mark, The ASL users in the US and Canada are ASL-English bilingual to varying degrees. Mexico has its own sign language as do other countries. If there are ASL users there, they must be visiting. hjh
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