It’s #SignLanguageWeek! British Sign Language (BSL) is the most commonly used sign language in the UK. It was recognised by the government as a language in its own right in 2003 and was legally recognised as a language of Britain in 2022. Read more: https://bit.ly/3R9ixdB | RNID

Do you know that British Sign Language is a complete, natural language that has the same linguistic properties as spoken languages, with grammar that differs from English. For example in English a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. Phonemes are put together to make words eg the phonemes f/l/o/p make the word flop. There are 44 phonemes in English. In BSL our phonemes are ‘handshapes’ rather than sounds and there are 35-40 handshapes in BSL. The meaning or signs will depend on how and where t