Talk:Japanese Sign Language

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Is the "Ethnologue report" link worth including? It doesn't seem to be of much value. --Sakurambo 16:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Sources are needed, e.g. for the earliest reference to JSL and/or the deaf community; the dates of founding the first school for the deaf and for the 1948 law requiring deaf children to undergo formal education.

There should also be sources linking to articles describing JSL features - mouthing, topic-comment formation, and the introduction of fingerspelling.

It would be useful to expand the content with regard to mouthing - for example, why is disambiguation more necessary than in other languages? and the finger-writing in the air is also an interesting feature which is possibly more distinctively Japanese - does this also exist in Chinese SL? It is not characteristic of European sign languages that I know of and possibly therefore demonstrates possibly a strong influence from the written language [if sources can be found to back this up or an expert who can expand this article!]

Are there any websites to link to as sources for the television programmes? Vandenwyngaerde 00:28, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

My guess would be that the reason for the greater use of mouthing is that the manual syllabry is a more recent development. ASL's manual alphabet is actually older than the language itself, and has thus been present since the beginning of the language. ASL uses a large number of initialized signs. If JSL doesn't use initialized signs, or at least not as many, it could explain why mouthing is more necessary; mouthing serves the same function as, e.g., the use of initializing does in distinguishing the ASL signs for "family", "class", and so forth. Nik42 (talk) 01:09, 15 March 2008 (UTC)