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Curious about statistics, what percent of people speak sign language?

• bluGill 6y ago
  What do you consider speak? I know one phase in each of French and Russian - though I'm sure my accent is so bad natives would have trouble understanding me. I can read Spanish, and produce simple sentences that are not memorized, but I'm not on the level of a conversation. So how many languages do you want to say I speak? You can creditably argue 1,2, or 4 from the above.
• deleted 6y ago
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• 082349872349872 6y ago
  Any signed language? Or a particular one?
• flerchin 6y ago
  Roughly 10% of Americans are hard of hearing. Unfortunately far fewer have learned sign language.
  • Wohlf 6y ago
    I assume that's because the majority of them are elderly, and have no desire to learn it.
• _nalply 6y ago
  In Switzerland about one per mille or even less.