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- Old_French_Sign_Language abstract "Old French Sign Language is the language of the deaf community in 18th-century Paris at the time of the establishment of the first deaf schools. The earliest records of the language are in the work of the Abbé de l'Épée, who stumbled across two sisters communicating in signs, and through them became aware of a signing community of 200 deaf Parisians.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 derived from the French language. The term \"Old French Sign Language\" has occasionally been used to describe Épée's \"systematised signs\", and he has often been (erroneously) cited as the inventor of sign language.Épée did however influence the language of the deaf community, and modern French Sign Language can be said to have emerged in the schools that Épée established. As deaf schools inspired by Épée's model sprung up around the world, the language was to influence the development of many other sign languages, including American Sign Language. From the dictionaries of \"systematised signs\" that the Abbé de l'Épée and his successor Abbé Roche-Ambroise Sicard published, we can see that many of the signs described have direct descendants in sign languages today.A contemporary of the Abbe de l'Épée who was himself deaf, Pierre Desloges, did partially describe Old French Sign Language, in what was possibly the first book ever to be published by a deaf person (1779). We know that the language did make use of the possibilities of a spatial grammar. One of the grammatical features noted by Desloges was the use of directional verbs, such as the verb TO WANT.From the few descriptions that exist, modern linguists are unable to build up a complete picture of Old French Sign Language, but ongoing research continues to uncover more pieces of the puzzle. It is not known how the language was acquired, or how long the language had been developing before Épée established his school. However, evidence suggests that whenever a large enough population of deaf people exists, a sign language will spontaneously arise (see Nicaraguan Sign Language). As Paris had been the largest city in Europe for hundreds of years until the 17th century (and with 565,000 inhabitants in 1750), French Sign Language is a good candidate for one of the oldest sign languages in Europe.Old French Sign Language is not related to Old French, which was spoken from roughly AD 1000 to 1300.".
- Old_French_Sign_Language iso6393Code "none".
- Old_French_Sign_Language spokenIn France.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageID "1785645".
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- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageRevisionID "699066816".
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink American_Sign_Language.
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- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Anno_Domini.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:French_Sign_Language_family.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_France.
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- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Deaf_culture.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink France.
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- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Nicaraguan_Sign_Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Old_French.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Paris.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Pierre_Desloges.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Roch-Ambroise_Cucurron_Sicard.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Old French Sign Language".
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Old French Sign".
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Proto-French (before l'Épée)".
- Old_French_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Proto-LSF".
- Old_French_Sign_Language dia French_Sign_Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language era "1750.0".
- Old_French_Sign_Language family French_Sign_Language_family.
- Old_French_Sign_Language familycolor "sign".
- Old_French_Sign_Language glotto "none".
- Old_French_Sign_Language iso "none".
- Old_French_Sign_Language name "Old French Sign Language".
- Old_French_Sign_Language states France.
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- Old_French_Sign_Language subject Category:French_Sign_Language_family.
- Old_French_Sign_Language subject Category:Languages_of_France.
- Old_French_Sign_Language hypernym Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Thing.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Q315.
- Old_French_Sign_Language type Q34770.
- Old_French_Sign_Language comment "Old French Sign Language is the language of the deaf community in 18th-century Paris at the time of the establishment of the first deaf schools.".
- Old_French_Sign_Language label "Old French Sign Language".
- Old_French_Sign_Language sameAs Q7084051.
- Old_French_Sign_Language sameAs Vieille_langue_des_signes_française.
- Old_French_Sign_Language sameAs Antiga_língua_de_sinais_francesa.
- Old_French_Sign_Language sameAs m.05wrp2.
- Old_French_Sign_Language sameAs Q7084051.
- Old_French_Sign_Language wasDerivedFrom Old_French_Sign_Language?oldid=699066816.
- Old_French_Sign_Language isPrimaryTopicOf Old_French_Sign_Language.
- Old_French_Sign_Language name "Old French Sign Language".