I posted a few days ago about an Inuit Sign Language gathering in Nunavut, Canada. Now there’s talk about Nunavut giving legal recognition to both native Inuit Sign Language and the larger deaf community’s American Sign Language (used in the United States and Canada).
This recognition would be in addition to Nunavut’s four recognized spoken languages: English, French, Inuktitut and Innuinaqtun. That would be six official languages in a large territory of fewer than 30,000 people. I hope it’s not too difficult for the government. However, it’s nice to see sign languages of the deaf being discussed, and possibly getting legal recognition as well.