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"Within just a few generations, a mature language with rules and grammar was born."

How many generations have there been since 1979? (unsigned comment by anon user 213.176.145.123, 21:04, 5 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My understanding is that the term 'generations' here can be understood to mean much shorter periods of time than is usually meant by generations as parent-child age difference. Nicaraguan Sign Language, like other deaf sign languages, is not primarily passed from parent to child, but learned by children at school from other children. What has been observed in NSL is that children only a year or two behind an older group are further developing the language and adding to it's complexity etc. -- ntennis 6 July 2005 03:02 (UTC)

"...in the 1970s..."

Surely the 1980s? The Sandinistas didn't come to power until halfway through 1979. Townmouse 7 July 2005 22:15 (UTC)

yes you are right. I corrected the first paragraph: the school actually opened in 1977, but some of the kids had known each other for a few years prior to that, so "in the 1970s" may be correct. ntennis 05:36, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

CITATIONS

Well, I can't help but to have noticed that there are absolutely NO citations for any of the information within the body of the article. There are plenty of references, but individual claims within the article must be specifically cited. Wikiwikikid (talk) 18:20, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Recursion?

Did the language have recursion in the form of verb/noun clauses?Likebox (talk) 17:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality debated

"R. Senghas (1997) used the phrase "unspeakable, unwritable" language in the title of his dissertation to highlight the common misconception that those languages without a written form are not as "real" (a view often held by those who do not study indigenous languages)."

This does not sound neutral/citation needed. 69.165.152.133 (talk) 13:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change on "When is it language?: remove initial"

In change history before said that "A. Renghas", which refer to Ann Senghas. Since there is two Senghas (Ann and Richard) mentioned before in ISN and linguistics, I think it's valid to write an initial name to make the statement clear.
-- Rv77ax (talk) 19:02, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article does not entertain the possibility that the premise (that kids invented NSL unaided) is wrong. This should at the very least be mentioned. https://www.academia.edu/9851602/ --Andy Blunden (ablunden@mira.net) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:458C:7A00:D9DB:C905:4262:F9BB (talk) 15:34, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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New references - articles in The Economist

I'm not good with Wikipedia citation formats. But I'll put these references here in case anyone else wants to add them to the article.

1) From 2018 - https://www.1843magazine.com/features/signs-and-wonders

2) From 2004 - http://www.economist.com/node/2441743

Omc (talk) 14:26, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]