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sparhawk
September 17th, 2004, 06:44 PM
This is very cool! It makes me think of what would have been like 5000 years ago in China...


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Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language
Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:12 PM ET

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.

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Luis