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Why and who uses British Sign Language?

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Deaf and hearing people in the Deaf community living in the UK/Britain use British Sign Language or BSL.

Sign Language is not universal, and that is the type of sign language used in this region. What is easily noticeable about BSL is that two hands are used for the BSL alphabet. Other signed languages tend to use one-handed alphabet for manual languages.

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