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#linguafranca — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #linguafranca, aggregated by home.social.

  1. I know there was a vibrant #Sanskrit community on #Twitter, back when it was TWTR.

    If you know of, or interested in globalizing and federating Sanskrit proverbs, aphorisms, or idioms, please boost.

    cc: @tokyo_0

    #language #proverbs #aphorisms #idioms #LinguaFranca #Latin #DeadLanguages

  2. A signed performance of ‘America the Beautiful’ will feature #NativeAmerican #signlanguage, which thrived for centuries but is fading from collective memory. #ColinDenny, a #deaf #Navajo man, will use both American Sign Language (#ASL) & Plains Indian Sign Language (#PISL), which was once so common across #GreatPlains that it was a #linguafranca,” a language used by both #deaf and #hearing people to #communicate between #tribes that didn’t share the same spoken language. washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

  3. A signed performance of ‘America the Beautiful’ will feature #NativeAmerican #signlanguage, which thrived for centuries but is fading from collective memory. #ColinDenny, a #deaf #Navajo man, will use both American Sign Language (#ASL) & Plains Indian Sign Language (#PISL), which was once so common across #GreatPlains that it was a #linguafranca,” a language used by both #deaf and #hearing people to #communicate between #tribes that didn’t share the same spoken language. washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

  4. A signed performance of ‘America the Beautiful’ will feature #NativeAmerican #signlanguage, which thrived for centuries but is fading from collective memory. #ColinDenny, a #deaf #Navajo man, will use both American Sign Language (#ASL) & Plains Indian Sign Language (#PISL), which was once so common across #GreatPlains that it was a #linguafranca,” a language used by both #deaf and #hearing people to #communicate between #tribes that didn’t share the same spoken language. washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

  5. A signed performance of ‘America the Beautiful’ will feature #NativeAmerican #signlanguage, which thrived for centuries but is fading from collective memory. #ColinDenny, a #deaf #Navajo man, will use both American Sign Language (#ASL) & Plains Indian Sign Language (#PISL), which was once so common across #GreatPlains that it was a #linguafranca,” a language used by both #deaf and #hearing people to #communicate between #tribes that didn’t share the same spoken language. washingtonpost.com/wellness/20