# Sign languages

Sign languages are full languages with their own grammar, and they arise wherever deaf people gather. Nicaraguan Sign Language was born in a school in the 1970s and 80s and is one of the few cases of a new language seen from its beginning.

Connects to:
- [Where language began](https://mapideas.org/i/la_origin)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Sign language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language)
- [Wikipedia: Nicaraguan Sign Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/la_signed · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#la_signed