Since it's NZSL week this week, our reading activities are based on NZSL. We had do go on a site that our reading teacher put up on how reading activities and read it. Then we had to create a visual about NZSL.
New Zealand Sign Language is one official language of New Zealand. It has developed over time within the New Zealand Deaf community and it helps deaf people with access to society, sense of identity and wellbeing. New Zealand Sign Language is unique to New Zealand and is the main language of New Zealand’s Deaf community. It became an official language in New Zealand in April 2006.
NZSL was created by deaf people for deaf people. It's a natrual language that conveys information via combination of signs, facial expressions and body movements. It’s not based on english or other spoken languages and it's not just fingerspelling.
There are many ways to learn NZSL, here's a site where you can learn NZSL fingerspelling alphabet.
Here's a photo of what NZSL fingerspelling looks like.
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