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Stephen Fry finds out what British Sign Language can tell us about language in general. British Sign Language is the preferred first language of more than 70,000 deaf people in the UK. It鈥檚 also a language culture with a surprisingly short history as an official language. Records show the existence of the language back in the 1500s but the term wasn鈥檛 used by linguists until the late 1970s and it was only recognized officially by the British Government in 2003.

First broadcast on Fry's English Delight, 27 August 2019.