Saturday, April 6, 2013

The Linguist’s Calendar: April 6

File:American School for the Deaf, main building, August 10, 2008.jpg
American School for the Deaf,
Hartford, Connecticut

April 6 

1830: Thomas Gallaudet, who introduced of French sign language to the USA, resigns from as principal of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford.

1921: Death (in New York City) of Maximilian Berlitzheimer, founder of the Berlitz Language Schools.

1990: Canada’s Northwest Territories’ official language usage laws are revised.



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