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eipipuz | 4 years ago
Signs very geographically even in ASL. (See: https://www.reddit.com/r/asl/comments/dcvqo9/is_there_much_d...)
Wouldn't your argument hold for spoken languages as well? Why do we have french and spanish? Because it would be impossible to force most people to learn the other language.
English is the widely spoken for economical reasons and yet that's only 13% of the world population.
No sign language has that kind of pull. We would need TV shows / movies that pushed a particular sign. The internet helps but how do you prevent groups from drifting?
At some point accents become dialect that become languages. Written ASL doesn't seem to be growing.
Why do people communicate in different languages? Because they live in slightly disconnected social circles.
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