New Zealand Sign Language

 Hi, guys today in Te Ao Whanui we are looking at something for New Zealand Sign language week, we are looking at an article that gives us some information about the topic after you finished reading the article you were given some questions to answer. Here is what I wrote for the answer and I hope you enjoy it.

New Zealand Sign Language started being an official language in 2006 because of the New Zealand Sign Language Act.
There was a need for New Zealand sign language because NZSL has a distinct vocabulary and grammar which was developed in the deaf community.
Two facts about this are that 23,000 people in New Zealand have some knowledge of NZSL and only 3,000 - 4,000 of those people are deaf. Also, did you know that only about 5% of deaf children have deaf parents and acquire NZSL from birth as a native language?
The city that NZSL began in was Christchurch in the 1800s.

Since I finished all of the questions I got to write my name in sign language, here is a video of me doing my name and I hope you enjoy it.

It is important to have NZSL interpreters at Jacinda's speeches because it is better for deaf people to look at instead of looking at subtitles as well as it also spreads awareness for the deaf community in New Zealan                        d. If Jacinda's speeches didn't have an interpreter for deaf people it would be harder for them to know what is going on in their country, even though some deaf people can lip read but that could be harder because some people speak differently, there are subtitles but sometimes you can't see the subtitles that well because of the background. Also, some countries might see that Jacinda has interpreters that do sign language behind her and think that it would be a good idea for them to have it as well.