Directory of Nicaraguan Sign Language Resources

A new language invented by a group of uneducated deaf Nicaraguan children brought together in the 1980s.

Resources in This Category

A Language at Its Genesis

http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/examples.jsp
Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.
A Linguistic Big Bang

http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html
A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine.
Birth Of A Language

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-of-a-language/
Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.
Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language

http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/diss/SENG01.html
Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
Evolution: Birth of a Language

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/2/l_072_04.html
Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
Gallaudet University Press News

http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/enewsletter4alt.html
Includes an article about the development of NSL.
SignWriting in Nicaragua

http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html
Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language.

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