Studying an emerging sign language won’t kill it – so what are linguists scared of?
Emerging sign languages could reveal how all language evolved – but keeping these fragile languages isolated for research may mean the people who rely on them lose out.
Written by Michael Erard. Read by Michael Regnier. Produced by Graihagh Jackson.
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