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A Language at Its Genesis - Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.
Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
Evolution: Birth of a Language - Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
SignWriting in Nicaragua - 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.
Birth Of A Language - Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language. (April 26, 2000)
Gallaudet University Press News - Includes an article about the development of NSL. (December 15, 1999)
A Linguistic Big Bang - 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. (October 24, 1999)

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

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