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A new language invented by a group of uneducated deaf Nicaraguan children brought together in the 1980s.

• Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. - University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes.
  
• Talking Hands - Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities on the Atlantic coast.
  
• Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas.
  
• SignWriting in Nicaragua - Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language.
  
• A Language at Its Genesis - Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process.
  
• Evolution: Birth of a Language - Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show.
  
• Gallaudet University Press News - Includes an article about the development of NSL.
  
• Birth Of A Language - Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language.
  
• A Linguistic Big Bang - A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine.
  
  

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