What is sign language? Sign language is a combination of hand shapes, facial expression and visual gestures. This is to help the deaf community understand what the government and other people are saying. It also provides full access to communication, it isn’t just used for deaf community it is also used for people who can hear but can’t speak.
NZ sign language (NZSL) is unique. It is a natural language of NZ deaf community, NZ sign language is also strictly home-grown because it originated here in NZ. NZSL is New Zealand’s third official language and it became it in April 2006.NZSL has its own grammar as well as other languages and it also has ways of expressing concepts that are not identical to spoken language.
Sign Language is the 12th most frequently used language in NZ. As one of New Zealand’s official languages 24,000 New Zealanders use NZSL daily. English is the first language that is spoken more in NZ and sign language is the 12th language that is spoken in NZ.
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