Good Comment, Alexis!

Referring to Gen: 11:1-10, It seems like God did not want people to have the same language to prevent them to develop ideas such as the one they had to build to the Babel tour.
But at the same time those people could have used "sign language" to communicate to achieve the same result. God did not put that idea in their heart. Does it mean that God did not want the use of "Sign Language" either?
On the other hand, in Romans 10:17 & Luke 11:28, in what language does God expect His word to be heard?

Thank you.
Hyacinthe

Posted on behalf of Alexis Thompson:

My first thought regarding a universal language brought me to the bible, Genesis 11:1-9. I don't believe creating a universal language would be successful. The artificial universal language called Esperanto has been traced to the 1800's. More information about Esperanto can be found athttp://esperantodocumentary.com/en/about-the-film. This is a very interesting topic and you did a great job in your presentation last week.

Alexis Thompson, DTM

1. What is "Sign Language"?

A method used to communicate with deaf-mute people

2. Is Sign Language uiversal?

As for ow Sig laguage is ot uiversal but may sigs are very similar or belong to families of signs, just linkethere are languages that belong to the same family such as:

   -  the roman languages that include: english, french, italian,
   - slovic languages that include: Serbian language,bulgarian, russian etc..
   - sino-tibetian languages that include : cantonese, mandarin
   - afro-asiatic family that include: Arabic, Amharic, Somali, Hebrew
   - Bantu family that include: swahili, Zulu, Zola,
   - etc.


But there is a so called Universal Language called : Esperanto, but it is more written than spoken.

Here are the links to the alphabet of American Sign Languages, the same I provided last week before my presentation.

http://signlanguageco.com/

http://www.handspeak.com/

 and  video links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M1ky9_nm4Y

                        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQw5z3NP2GY

My main question is:

Can we expect to have a universal Sign Language soon?

Your input will be very appreciated.

It is obvious that there are a few signs that seem to be universal already.
Such signs are :
1. Waving Goodbye
2. Streching out hands to a baby, he/she automatically knows that you want to carry him/her for a rock or a hug.
3. etc..


Thank you for your input!!
Sincerely,