Assertion: american sign language | /r/HasProperty | based on french sign language
Facets:
value: because of this french influence
type: CAUSE
value: heavily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Because of this French influence, American Sign Language is heavily based on French Sign Language, or LSF.
text: American Sign Language is based on French Sign Language brought over in the early 1800s by a Deaf French man Clerc.