As the Filipino deaf community strives for its language to be more widely recognized, two organizations share how Filipino Sign Language continues to grow amidst the exclusion of the deaf
MANILA, Philippines – Did you know that words such as the the social media platforms “Instagram” and “Twitter” have sign language counterparts? That’s how assimilated is the sign language for deaf people.
Deaf and Terp sign language news interpreter Bayani Generoso shared that when he first moved to Bicol after living in Canada for 30 years, a lot of the locals had a hard time understanding his ASL. As a whole, FSL is simply a more visual sign language as influenced by Filipinos’ unique use of body language. “I think as Filipinos, we all love to communicate with our bodies, we love pointing [with our mouths]. We’re also very visual as Filipinos, we love to understand things through seeing,” Deaf and Terp FSL interpreter Naty Natividad explained.
“We want students to empathize with the deaf experience. That’s how deaf people live all their lives, being in situation[s] when nobody understands them. So as a hearing student having a deaf teacher, yes, it’s difficult. It’s challenging, but it’s worth the experience.” Natividad shared. Despite being a language of its own, FSL is often thought of as directly mimicking spoken language. However, FSL consists of five parameters: hand shape, location, palm orientation, movement, and non-manual signal , all of which can make the difference between a genuine response and a snarky remark.
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