Thread:Daintydysphemism/@comment-25085701-20190608175337/@comment-39646557-20190609115558

Well, I haven't studied ASL so I can't really say how it differs (sorry!). Swedish Sign Language arose naturally here in Sweden about 200 years ago (or at least, that's when it was documented), while ASL emerged around the same time in the U.S. They're both natural languages born in different cultural contexts on different continents, so of course there are bound to be great differences -- for example, British Sign Language and ASL have both been in immersive contact with written and spoken English, but they're still very different languages.