Talk:Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language

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[edit] "without influence from any other language"??

The article says this is a language "which has developed a complex grammar without influence from any other language". This is almost certainly false. First, there are only 150 speakers of this language and they do not live isolated from speakers of other languages. Second, many of those who speak this sign language are themselves bi-lingual in oral Arabic. Third, there is no citation for this not very credible claim. There must be a better way to state the matter. Maybe "A new language has been created in the past 70 years whose grammar is not a mere copy of that of any of the languages with which it had contact." Interlingua ^{talk email} 20:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)