Sign language developed to include marine species
Posted on 13/06/2026 09:55:00
News Date: 13 June 2026
News Source: BBC
A new set of sign language gestures covering animals that live in the seas around the UK has been created to make marine science more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Rebecca Hegedűs is studying at the University of Exeter Penryn campus in Cornwall, and is one of eight deaf marine biology students around the world who helped created the new signs - with species local to each global region.
The signs added to BSL (British Sign Language) are for words including species like basking shark, sperm whale, grey seal and common dolphin.
Hegedűs said: "It is really important to know these signs because in BSL we don't really have that many signs linked to marine species," she said.
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