International Day Of Sign Languages for real?

Yes, The United Nations General Assembly declared September 23 (each year) as the International Day of Sign Languages to raise awareness of the relevance of sign language in the full realisation of deaf people’s human rights.

It is a unique opportunity to assist and safeguard all deaf people and other sign language user’s ( eg : CODA’S and Sign Language Interpreter’s ) to preserve their linguistic identities and cultural uniqueness.

SIGN LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD

There are may be about three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The exact number is not known. All these languages are different from one another on the basis of country, spoken language, place & culture etc.

List of Sign Languages all over the world :