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When deaf students in Nicaragua first met and began building the grammar of their own sign language, what did they notably lack?
Answer
Adult native signers to learn the language from
The students had a school and each other, but no fluent adult signers already using a complete sign language, so the children generated the grammar entirely on their own.
💡 Did you know?
Nicaraguan Sign Language spontaneously emerged in the 1980s when deaf students met for the first time, creating grammar from scratch without adult instruction.
Other options people guess
- A school building to meet in
- Deaf classmates to communicate with
- Basic hand gestures to communicate with
Topics
- sign-language
- pidgin
- creole
- language-formation
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