Assertion: sign language | /r/HasProperty | abandoned
Facets:
value: usually
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: When the child begins to speak, signing is usually abandoned, so the child does not progress to acquiring the grammar of the sign language.[citation needed]
text: For example, a sign language used by a small community may be endangered and even abandoned as users shift to a sign language used by a larger community, as has happened with Hawai'i Sign Language, which is almost extinct except for a few elderly signers.