![]() In ASL, there are vocabulary words that have a sign but not all of them do and they are finger spelled out. For example, there have been new signs created for Joe Biden, Kamal Harris, and COVID since all these events recently occurred. New signs in ASL include the sign name for a new president, governor, virus, etc. In the US, the spreading of new signs is not as quick and is learned much later from the social media, friends, or Deaf socials. In Israel, since the country is so small, new signs spread quicker and everyone in the country immediately knows the new signs. If someone who grew up in the West goes to Gallaudet for college, he or she will probably have a bit of a hard time fitting in as the signing in the East coast is much faster and consists of different signs that the person may or may not recognize. For instance, people that live on the West Coast will sign differently than people that lives in the East Coast, or even in California, there are regional signs between Northern California and Southern California. Even though American Sign Language is a national language that everyone uses across the US, there are different “accents” or “styles” of ASL ( “ Deaf Culture | Sign Language “Accents” or “Styles” ). In the US, more than 35,000,000 D/deaf people out of the 331 million total population and in Israel, 18,000 D/deaf people out of the 8,856,752 total population. The United State is quite large in comparison to Israel. ![]() Of course, there are many more other sign languages, cultures, and histories than the example I will provide below. I will use ASL and compare with Israeli Sign Language of Israel as an example for this article. ![]() In this article, I will be giving you more in depth sense how the culture, language, and history can differ from one another. American Sign Language is only unique to the US whereas other countries have their own unique sign languages. Did you know American Sign Language is not universal? In the article, “ Is American Sign Language Universal”, it talked about whether or not American Sign Language is universal, in other words, ASL is used in all countries all over the world. ![]()
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