{"id":10361,"date":"2012-04-30T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:24:49","slug":"sign-languages-do-not-generally-resemble-the-spoken-language-from-the-area-they-originated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/sign-languages-do-not-generally-resemble-the-spoken-language-from-the-area-they-originated\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Languages Do Not Generally Resemble the Spoken Language from the Area They Originated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sign-language-spoken-myth-f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10362\" title=\"sign-language-spoken-myth-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sign-language-spoken-myth-f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sign-language-spoken-myth-f.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sign-language-spoken-myth-f-340x318.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myth: sign languages generally resemble the spoken language from the area they originated. In other words, in the majority of cases, the various sign languages used were not developed from spoken languages.\u00a0 For example, American Sign Language resembles Chinese in form more than it does English in terms of a single gesture often represent a phrase or whole idea, rather than a single word. Further, most sign languages were invented and developed by the deaf and thus bear little real resemblance to spoken language in form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/how-deaf-people-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources and How Deaf People Think<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: sign languages generally resemble the spoken language from the area they originated. In other words, in the majority of cases, the various sign languages used were not developed from spoken languages.\u00a0 For example, American Sign Language resembles Chinese in form more than it does English in terms of a single gesture often represent a phrase or whole idea, rather [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[267,2464,1615,2463,1112,2478,2501,2500],"class_list":["post-10361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-facts","tag-know-it","tag-myths","tag-now-you-know","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-quick-myths","tag-sign-language-facts","tag-sign-language-myths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10364,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions\/10364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}