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Records of the language they used are scant. Épée saw their signing as beautiful but primitive, and rather than studying or recording it, he set about developing his own unique sign system ("langage de signes méthodiques"), which borrowed signs from Old French Sign Language and combined them with an idiosyncratic morphemic structure which he ...
French Sign Language is frequently, though mistakenly, attributed to the work of Charles Michel de l'Épée (l'abbé de l'Épée). In fact, he is said to have discovered the already existing language by total accident; having ducked into a nearby house to escape the rain, he fell upon a pair of deaf twin sisters and was struck by the richness ...
Signed French (français signé) is any of at least three manually coded forms of French that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to French word order or grammar. In France, Signed French uses the signs of French Sign Language ; the Belgium system uses the signs of French Belgian Sign Language , and in Canada the signs of Quebec ...
Old French Sign Language (influenced by l'Epée c. 1760–89) Belgian Sign Language (c. 1790–2000) Austro-Hungarian Sign Language (c. 1780–1920) American Sign Language (c. 1820–present) French Sign Language (c. 1790–present) French Belgian Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Flemish Sign Language (c. 1970–present) Dutch Sign Language (c ...
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The French Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language and American Sign Language. The LSF family descends from Old French Sign Language (VLSF), which developed among the deaf community in Paris.
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Desloges explained, "like a Frenchman who sees his language belittled by a German who knows only a few French words, I thought I was obliged to defend my language against the false charges of this author." He describes a community of deaf people using a sign language (now referred to as Old French Sign Language).