I think it further isolates the country, I think it further aggravates the long-term situation of the country,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

There are stories of deaf people who are within certain societies where nobody signs to them, and so they're what's known as linguistic isolates.

还有些关于生活在并无手语的,特定社会下聋人的故事,这种情况就是所谓的语言隔离

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