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By Daniel Gilbert
March 12, 2004
Researchers from the University are studying a new language that is emerging
in Nicaragua without ever hearing a single word of it.

A developing community of deaf persons in the Central American country
created a common sign language that has helped establish a shared culture
that did not exist 20 years ago. Before then, deaf Nicaraguans primarily
stayed at home and interacted with family members via their own personal
systems of communication. But in the early 1980s, the Melania Morales School
for Special Education in the capital city of Managua became more widely
available to deaf Nicaraguans, making the study and standardization of the
language a possibility.

Complete Article here:
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2004/03/12/professors_research_.php
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