Years ago, deaf teenagers in Nicaragua communicated through their own system of gestures. Then younger kids picked it up and became fluent — and a language was born. Reporter Carol Zall tells the unusual story of a Nicaraguan sign language and what it may teach us about how humans learn to communicate.
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