How To Sign In BASL (Black American Sign Language) | Strong Black Lead
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- Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2020
- After her video went viral on TikTok, we asked Charmay to explain BASL (Black American Sign Language) to us, and tell us how it's different from ASL (American Sign Language).
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As a black hearing person BASL makes more sense, just the fact that our deaf community speaks with both hands
I think ASL was a more heavily planned language. Whereas BASL is a more organically formed language.
@Faizaan Naseem Typically, a deaf person will just ask for clarification if they don't understand what is being said. BASL and ASL are similar enough for that kind of miscommunication to be reconciled pretty quick.
@Faizaan Naseem would think it would be no different than two people from different areas using a different word with the same meaning. Seeing as it's been around since the 1800s, I'm guessing it's worked out fine.
@Faizaan Naseem Even within ASL, there can be so many different ways to sign individual words, sentences, grammatical structure, and more differences like using your face and mouth....so there's always a little bit of adjustment needed when two people from different backgrounds sign to each other. It can be different countries (American VS British sign) or even different states, cities, friend groups, etc.
I’m Australia we is Auslan. They can still communicate with Americans using ASL
Whoever added the captions left off "I'm from Texas" that she signed at the beginning.
This is why I want to learn🙄🙄
Just sad, they had one job🥴😒
Ik a bit of sign language and I was saying what she said in my head and I see, I’m from Texas but I didn’t see the captions so I was rlly confused
ikr like bruh I learned those signs my first year of ASL class 👁️👄👁️💀
I was looking for that as I follow her and that be the best part of her flavor like Texas ain’t up in here. Bc we are
I felt the “you in my business, don’t do that”
@PƐRSѺNA SLATƐS A common grammatical aspect of AAVE is *deletion of verbal copula*
"This means that in some contexts, the word "is/are" can be left out. If you think this is "lazy grammar," speakers of Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin would like to have a word with you."
It's a recognized dialect of American English, typically used in black and African American communities.
@PƐRSѺNA SLATƐS no, I said it correctly. If you use the platform tiktok you know that it's a popular saying.
@PƐRSѺNA SLATƐS you've never been on tiktok i see😹 we are just fine on tiktok😁
@@itsjaclyn239 "Popular on Tiktok" means it's popular on Tiktok. Outside that bubble, who knows it? Anyone?
@@markmandel6738 Literally so many people. It's not like her sentence couldn't be understood, it just had a dropped verb (a super common deletion)
I did not know that there was an entirely different dialect of ASL, but with segregation it makes absolute sense. Thank you for teaching me something new today.
@@shalom8858 were you even born then my nigga? Shut up
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This just made me fall in love with my culture even more. What cant we do!!!!
@@lunisic My name is basic too. My grandmother chose it because it was easier (you know what I mean). Majority of black people have a % white or other race mixed in them. Stop the colorism.
@@lunisic not all light skinned black people are mixed. You must be a child or obviously not a black person at all because this is common sense.
@@lunisic bruh
Our resiliency in the face of so many racist obstacles astounds me and makes me proud.
@@kristineilochi4615 Preach!
As a Black Deaf woman, my mother (who was also Deaf) placed me into hearing school, deprived me of deaf culture because during her time, she and other deaf people were scold for signing and was forced to talk verbally. My mother dropped out of school because she loved herself as a Deaf person. Now that I am an adult, I’m working on learning more about my deaf culture and how to be more fluent in BASL than I was before.
Man, I don't leave comments on RUclips... this may be my first one ever. I found this fascinating and engaging. I LOVED it! We AB-SO-LUTE-LY need to preserve this language!!! It's a part of an entire culture that MUST be preserved and celebrated!
Nice to see this as your first comment, AGREED!
Yes! I'm just teaching my newborn sign language and came across this. ❤️
Just the difference between the words “hurt” and “children”. So much more honesty and feeling and soul
I took ASL in school for 3 years and met many deaf people throughout that time (predominantly white) and not one of them or my teachers ever mentioned BASL! It’s really sad to me they always mention sign language in different countries and things like that but not a variation that’s used right here in America. 🤦🏾♀️
😢 for real you have read my mind darling
I wish there was a course I could learn BASL and ASL so I could code switch when desired. That would be so cool
For sure! If they teach ASL we might as get the opportunity to learn different dialects too!
This is very interesting, especially since I wasn't aware this language existed. Thanks for sharing.
It doesn't. It's as fake as institutional racism in modern society. Just a way for rich old white Democrats to keep people of color mad.
@@jrivers0005 lmao alright sure
@@theembersinside1420 I was literally taught about linguistic variations of ASL among black communities at the college level, including a class discussion with one of our lab professors, a Deaf black man.
The variations can be minor, but may have greater distinctions depending on overlap with other factors, such as age, geographical region, and gender.
Slang exists in ASL, and occasionally may have some overlap with BASL, but a cultural dialect and slang are two different linguistic features.
@@RavenBells so is there also Asian ASL too? Hispanic? Native American?
@@mrnoobie2541 Short answer: yes. There is Japanese Sign Language, which is different from American Sign Language, both are different from Korean Sign Language, Egyptian Sign Language, Spanish Sign Language, Brazilian Sign Language, and the multitude of signed languages used for hundreds of years by the indigenous people living across the North American continent
I knew that there were dialects of Sign Language for different countries but I didn’t realize that people had to create these own sign language because of hard circumstances
we (not americans) don’t speak an asl dialect. every country has it’s own sign language.
Theres also "Plank" or Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), which is even older then ASL or BSL. Still used and taught.
@@mylabot that’s so cool!
Because of *racism.*
You can say it. Dead racists won't come out of their graves and drag you down with them if you do. I promise.
@@BrotherKnowledge. I was screaming at "hard circumstances" LMAOOOO
“Im 22 years old” …next clip from her was saying “I am from TEXAS” 🧡🐂
This was left out from the caption, but i feel its very important and says a lot about her culture as a Black American especially since shes from a Southern State and can sign in BASL too.
I wonder why they left that out.
Imma add this to the list of “things black people do that I never knew about” super cool ❤️❤️❤️
I wish I could take a BASL class I’m a black hearing person learning and studying ASL and I’ve always been curious of black deaf culture 💕🫶🏾
I am a deaf/hoh Mexican that is learning ASL and CSL and this is amazing!!!
I think people should realize that us deafies/hoh its a WHOLE NEW WORLD. Its different than the hearing world yet the same. Sign languages must be preserved no matter what. This lady is doing great and hopefully more hearing people are interested in learning! 😊
What is CSL?
@@karenholcombe2000 Chinese Sign Language!
:)
Wow. I started watching Switched at Birth back in the day and got fascinated by ASL and now I'm slappin my forehead like "Of course there are dialects too". Amazing
I loved this show. Too bad they stopped it
I find this video so satisfying just her doing all those hand movements. I literally never knew of BASL until I saw this video and even when I read the title I thought it was a joke but I’m glad she took the time to inform us on this.
I knew nothing about BASL! I’m glad to learn something new. And I felt that! The difference is that BASL got that seasoning! 🔥
@Brèagha if that’s how you feel about, I respect that. Either way, I’ll still have some sort of pride for the folk that look like me. It’s all in the name of love from my view. Enjoy your day or night.
@Brèagha UH HELL yeah everything about US is better TO US. I felt hyped watching her sign as a black hearing person signing in a way that I could comprehend more. Why hate when WE happy bout OUR OWN culture??? Why hate when through all the BS we went through we (black diaspora) are still thriving and created our own alternatives in this wicked society.
Not just the "seasoning", but a number of different signs, as is very very common in dialectology.
@Brèagha why are yall always so bitter? Let people have pride for their culture and respect it and move on.
@Brèagha it's a fact that BASL uses more expression, larger signing space, more two-handed signs, etc. For many, those things make it more "interesting" than typical ASL
In any speaking community, there are accents and dialects. Sign language follows that too. In Hawaii, we have Hawaiian spoken language and Hawaiian sign language. We also have a spoken pidgin (creole) dialect and with that a Pidgin sign language. Accents and dialects are home grown. I’d imagine BASL would capture Black American spoken ebonics. Thanks for sharing! Love this.
It is beautiful to learn that deaf Black Americans didn't let segregation hinder them into forming their own rich language. I would love to learn BASL. It definitely needs to be preserved and taught in schools.
Dear nonblack people: I know some of you guys aren't trying to be rude in learning BASL, but please do not go stealing this dialect the same as many steal AAVE and Ebonics and use it for your pleasure without the correct context.
Amen!
I’m here bc my asl teacher is assigning it to us
@@yewbellend again , read the comment i never said they couldn't use it
@@_Zane__ read the comment again and slowly
As a white person, I saw this shit, and I was "word? Brand new slice of black culture to appropriate! That's where it's at!"
Phenomenal! I so want to hug her and all of her generational representations. Now this is preservation of one of the best and unique dynamics of our culture. Great illustration of preservation a non-demoralizing and educational necessity.
Love this! Thank you Netflix for amplifying and much success to this young lady ✨✨
So glad that they have this. I learned ASL, but now I am to learn BASL.
I didn’t know there was BASL! I love learning more about my culture!
Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf African Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were segregated based upon race, creating two language communities among deaf signers: white deaf signers at white schools and black deaf signers at black schools. Today, BASL is still used by signers in the South despite public schools having been legally desegregated since 1954.
Y'all need to read before you speak.
You’re the kind of person who will fix every grammar in your comments for fear of being “bullied”. Even your cartoon screams, “am I woke enough?!”. Sad
Thank you
I was so confused
But isn't it kinda racist
@@hootenhuggybear You ok man?
Difficult to understand...
@@stark537 how?
Great video! I doubt the producer and editor sign though. I can't imagine someone that is trying to use a visual language would make that many damn cuts during when she was signing AND flash words over her hands.
You are absolutely right. I was trying to follow and all those cuts made it super difficult
Visual cues are GREAT for sign language videos, they mimic sound of words or beat in background..Yes it was pretentious but the Hand signs for single and double with the green echos were GREAT CUES! Andy Maneo ASL music video uses them WAY BETTER
Huh this is such a great point I wouldn’t have thought of 🤦🏻♀️. And why it’s so important to have minorities part of the producing and editing of content that is intended to educate others about minority groups.
I love this! I love languages in general, but never really thought of the fact that there would be dialects within the same nation's SL - but of course there is. Makes perfect sense. Love, love, love it.
Who is really surprised that they didn't know of this until now? Really curious to know if people who know ASL can understand this though? Like I wanna know how different it really is.
I'm just a hearing ASL student lol. There are some signs that I recognized and other structural similarities but it's also quite different. There are differences in signs, as she explained in the video, and there was noticably more use of her non-dominant hand than I would expect to see in ASL
I am a hearing student but most of the deaf individuals I am friends with know more than one way to sign the majority of the words they use regularly. It's necessary if they want to enjoy media created by deaf individuals with different cultural backgrounds or travel regularly. Hearing people who speak English usually learn at least some of the words and idioms used by English speakers in different parts of the world. I was born and raised in Southern California, but I have learned idioms and words used by the Brits because I watch a lot of BBC. I have relatives in Oregon, Minnesota, North Carolina, and South Carolina so I know the meanings of a lot of their favorite idioms. My maternal grandfather was raised in Mexico and connected with other Spanish speakers when he moved to the U.S. when he moved here so I know slang used by Mexican Americans and some used by immigrants from other Central and South American countries. Given the fact that hearing individuals often become somewhat familiar with other dialects, it's not surprising that deaf individuals would know more than one dialect of a sign language.
I too I’m hear but can sign , there where a few signs that was Completely different like the history and when she signed children and family but everyone that it was pretty easy to understand sometimes families that are non-speaking have their own dialect
In didn’t know this! My brother is deaf so I know ASL but I’m glad that there is some dialect in sign language. This is honestly amazing
Thank you for educating us. I honestly did not know about BASL until today.
I am currently learning ASL, and I'm hyped to learn BASL. this is dope! I did not know about this, but it definitely makes sense.
This is amazing. I love how culture can influence things one would not normally think about
Heck yeah girl!! Keep it going!! So interesting! I had no idea this existed!! I love the flava and signing with two hands - that makes a lot of sense! So cool
black diasporic cultures continue to amaze me with they shear amount of culturally creative force they have when put under conditions where their identity is actively being erased, suppressed, or appropriated.
AMAZING! Loved learning about this important facet of the Black Community!!
I didn't know about BASL until now. beautiful and right that we need to preserve it :)
Thanks for sharing this! I didn’t know and it’s really interesting.
That was amazing! Thanks for sharing this
i LOOOOVE charmay and hope this is the start of her getting all the shine she deserves
I didn’t know that BASL was a thing! Thank you for making the video.
Wow. I never knew BASL existed until today and I am so happy I now know.
Preserve this language ❤.
👋🏽 Wow! This popped on my news feed. Im shocked b/c I also follow you on TikTok! You rock and I admire you! Keep the learning alive! I thank you and your family! 🙌🏽
Cool video so much info I didn't know about keep up the good work.
Was born and raised in the United States as a hearing person I'm learning ASL. BASL is unique to my eyes, it makes sense because with black Americans how they speak I believe it's the same way if you were signing it
....exactly...i took up ASL because as a gay black man i use my hands a lot and wanted to take ASL to affirm my gay ideation more...oops my teacher was gay...and he took up ASL for the exact same reason....LOL ....so as you can well imagine we had a BALL....i took 5 semesters of his class....we would get so intense with it that the actual deaf people in our class could not comprehend what we were signing....it's actually an exchange of energies....it's metaphysical....when i communicate to my deaf friends and co workers they understand perfectly...however you observations are correct...keep on learning ASL....and be FABULOUS WITH IT....put that SEASONING ON IT....HOWEVER YOU DO IT....
@@corneliuswashington-zr2kfI love the way you put that. I’m just imaging two men so deeply entrenched with what they’re saying that other people are just looking on dumbfounded
And I love the bit about the metaphysical exchange of energies. You are absolutely right about that!
I didn't know there were different dilects. Keep it up. I remember the episode of bones with the deaf girl they found out where she was from from how she signed
This is awesome as someone that studied ASL a bit in college I would love to learn more.
I had no idea! This is so cool and amazing❤️
This video is great! Thank you so much for helping people understand about this important sign language tradition!
Me sat here crying🙈.. this is so amazing.. another part of black history . Thanks for teaching me. I really appreciated this video.
OKAY! OH MY GOD. THIS IS AMAZING. LIKE TRULY AMAZING. I'm kinda freaking out, because like... So, I somehow had picked up the BASL for "Same here" and have been using it for use to indicate that I agree with someone, or that I relate to someone. I don't know how or why this happened?!? I am hard of hearing, have been for a little over 11 years, but I've never met anyone who spoke BASL. I still haven't met anyone irl who does.
I feel like that speaks to the interconnectedness of Black Americans. It's really quite beautiful.
A lovely short video of BASL it's history. Well done. :-)
Thank you and I am so exciting to learn more about BASL.. Thank you for this amazes idea to share with us.
This was good..and that beat background music was Crazy😎
I took THREE YEARS of ASL and deaf history in high school and NEVER knew BASL existed! Now I want to learn ALL. THE. THINGS!
Woww!! I Am learning BASL love it 🤟🏽🧏🏾♀️
Wow this was amazing! Thank you so much Nakia Smith!
I love sign period. From the 1st time I saw people communicating this way. I was hooked. Teach me all the ways of Sign I'm here and ready to learn
this was awesome, thank you!
I'm glad to learn about this!
@netflix for PR or not you guys are seriously raising awareness in such diverse topics and giving voice to so many minorities the more shows you make 👏🏻👏🏻
It did not even cross my mind that this could be a thing but I love it
Super dope. Especially, the origin story. I want to know more. 💙
HAARRRDDD!! You go…GURL! 😎🤬✊🏽💪🏽 I’m a Deaf Biracial soul but it doesn’t matter because BASL/BSL deserves recognition or acknowledgement, PERIOD! May y’all be safe in this nutty world.
OMG! I love this! Even our BASL got more seasoning!!!!!!!!!
Yes thanks for educating us on this language yes we must preserve it
I had no idea that this existed but it makes perfect sense! Just like we developed AAVE, we have our own dialect of ASL. I love that!
Love this!
I looooooooove this!!!! Inclusion and representation!!!! As someone who is endlessly curious about language, I did understand that there were many different types of sign language, for about ten years now. Charmay sharing her family's story was breathtakingly beautiful and I'm quite sure eye opening!
I didn't even kno there was a such thing. The language is beautiful
i remember seeing clips of her and her grandpa a few years back. now that I'm a mom of a 15mo old and trying to teach her some signs to communicate want to make sure we throw in some BASL ❤🖤💚
There's a casting call for someone who knows BASL. I never heard of it, and a quick search brought me here. I never knew BASL existed!
i love this!!
Damn … you learn something new every day ❤
Respect from Poland!
it was really hard to keep up with the subtitles cause i couldn't stop staring at her hands lol its hypnotizing
Very informative thank you for sharing American sign language
I'm learning ASL and can already tell BASL definitely has more flavor! I hope to be as eloquent as she is someday.
Thank you for sharing this
I see this shared in my LinkedIn newsfeed. I didn't know this until now!!
I am a hearing individual (Black American), when I was a child around age 12, self-taught ASL alphabet and a few greetings but I didn't have anyone to continue to practice with. I wanted to be an interpreter. So I let it go. Now at age 36, I have been learning gradually on and off British Sign Language/BSL for the past two years. I will plan to continue to learn ASL in my future. One at a time.
Watching the video now: BSL is both hands also. That's interesting, BASL possibly could stem from History during Colonialism and Chattel Slavery by Portugal, Spain, especially Britain, and continued in Jim Crow law/Segregation. My mind is blown right now!
Date Stamp: 01dec20
I certainly need more of this.
Thank you so much for this video
This is amazing!
God Bless. Your Deaf Wrapping will inspire Deaf children to be creative Musicians.
Idk why this is mind blowing to me
I here for this!
This was so interesting! I'd love to hear more about it
I love this so much
Good parent is proud of you to sign languages. Asl and basl
But then the nuance of ASL to BSL then BACK to ASL. BSL Christmas is "rushy" in ASL. Curious is more like "Whisper or gossip" , Hurt is more of a emotional hurt then a physical hurt. BSL is more into metaphor of emotion and i dig it as now sentences can have complexcity or layered meaning. BSL poetry must be amazing.
BASL or BSL? Black ASL or British Sign Language? Which are you talking about?
BSL is not BASL
@@jakeprice9031 that’s my point. I want to know which language @mylabot are talking about.
very informative. thank you for sharing! i learned something new today.
I am a lover of languages and have studied french arabic and spanish. I came across your tik toks and was mesmerized. I want to learn BASL. Where can you learn. I've looked on line and haven't found tutorials just videos talking about the difference and the history. But I want to learn the language! I'm can pay for lessons!
So interesting had no idea there were different dialects
i love this! and the educational part.
very interesting never knew this. She's amazing
Wow, that is crazy that it so long for black students to be admitted to American Sign Language schools. Thank you for sharing your story.
This is amazing. I love us so much, and this is why. Just awesome!
Funnily enough , I took an ASL course because I thought the signs could cross cultural barriers, only to find that there are more barriers, and they're even bigger than those in spoken languages.
Happy for her. As yes. All of it.