Timeline for Did a "cave man-style" language ever exist?
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| Dec 20, 2013 at 22:54 | comment | added | Colin Fine | It was very quick. As soon as there was a population of deaf children under the critical age, seeing the older children haltingly communicate in a manual pidgin, they developed a manual creole. Idioma de signos nicaraguense. | |
| Dec 20, 2013 at 14:03 | comment | added | Joe Pineda | Be warned, though, that the house-specific signs these people were using before being gathered all together were based on the common gestures typical in Nicaragua, and the order and usage patterns were inevitably influenced by the children's relatives' native Spanish language. So even though NSL grammar has a lot of differences from that of Spanish, it did receive a strong influence from it during its formation phase for it wasn't developed completely "ex-nihilo". | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | Joe Pineda | I guess it was fairly rapidly. Don't know the exact time frame but shouldn't be that difficult to find out: There've been plenty of studies comparing the 1st generation of signalers of the language with younger generations, contrasting not just the terseness/complexities of their language but also their reasoning and spatial abilities. After all, this language only came into being in the late 70's, early 80's. | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 17:42 | comment | added | Nerrolken | Interesting. Any idea how long that process took? | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 15:12 | history | answered | Joe Pineda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |