All over the world, we have an abundance of culture and language that make up human society. Each and every one of these traits of society is unique and special in their own way. Perhaps one of the most interesting phenomena of society is language, how we speak and communicate, but to those who do not hear spoken language have no use. These groups of people have developed their own language, one that uses hand signs and body gestures to communicate. This form of communication is called Sign Language. No one really knows where and when sign languages began but it is known to have developed over time from many people and is almost as diverse as a spoken language. It is an amazing part of society and to those who helped develop it we owe them our gratitude because if not for them we might have never been able to bridge the gap between the hearing and the non-hearing.
             It might be noted here that sign language also has a complex grammar structure and those who don't have a passion to learn it will not get it. In the United States, the most common signing is the American Sign Language (ASL) which is used the most. It is very complex and very visual. Nonetheless, it is a complete linguistical natural language used by thousands of people. The American Sign Language shares very little with English and should not be considered a broken or gestural form of English. To the surprise of many, it shares a greater similarity to spoken Japanese. It has a topic sentence comment structure as oppose to the Subject-Object-Verb structure of English. Unlike spoken languages where there is just one serial stream of phonemes, sign language can have multiple things happening at the same time. This makes it exciting and very interesting for linguists to study but to the deaf-impaired, it is very frustrating. They have their own morphology rules and are unlike any of those found in spoken language. However, the similarity to spoken language may be the fact th...