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In the past; there was a heavy debate in the linguistic community about spoken (audible) languages being the only proper form of official languages. Ultimately, linguists and other scholars determined that a language does not have to be audible for it to be a genuine form of extensive communication. Manual languages were often thought of as either idiotic, or mimicry, or miming. Yes, I know ASL uses miming, but so do people in the hearing world, as part of their "body-language". When was the last time you gave a "rock on" symbol or a "peace" sign or for the worse for wear, flipped someone off? For a language to be official, it has to have its own rules of grammar and syntax; and it has to be relatively thorough. Fictional languages may also be considered official, if there are people who speak it or write it in large scale numbers (Klingon e.g.)

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