Talk:Ottoman Sign Language

The Troublesome Case of Too Many Thems

At court, silence was at a premium, and several sultans preferred that sign language be used in their presence; they were able to jest with them in a way that would be inappropriately familiar in Turkish.

One of these pronouns presumably means the sultans; it would help if the other referent were also mentioned in the same sentence. —Tamfang (talk) 20:37, 24 August 2019

Historical Facts and Facts of how signed communication evelolves among a numner of deaf individuals

This article stinks. You need to consider the essential facts: 1) Once when two deaf persons encounter each other, they will develop a rudimentary sign communication, no exemption. 2) In households where a deaf child is born, it will create a novel language of signs to communicate within family, and its sophistication may grow upon reuse by family members. The deaf child is indeed an inventor of a language in this environment! But it can be killed by the audistic sentiment of the parents when they fail to respond to the deaf child's communicative intitiatives. 3) The crude home signing will evolve into language upon extended use within and outside family and transmitted to the next generation of deaf children in the family or outside to the nearest community. 4) There are records of deaf servants in the Hittite and Assyrian Courts in the years 1300 BC that continued to 1600 CE in the Ottoman Court that evidences the existence of a "deaf community" at the court. No information exists of deaf servants afterwards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.160.45 (talk) 03:28, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

The Turkish Sign Language of the deaf does not evolve from that of the Ottoman Court at all. It develops much later by deaf children in the 19th century in their schools.