The wonders of human #languages:

> _“#ASL [American Sign Language] shares more with spoken #Japanese than it does with #English”_

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility#Among_sign_languages

> _“#Spanish and #Portuguese are show the highest intelligibility, followed by Spanish and #Italian. #French is clustered further from the three mentioned above and #Romanian shows the smallest degree of intelligibility. However, for Romanian a high asymmetric intelligibility was measured. Romanians understand all the other Romance languages to a much higher extent than vice versa.”_

https://www.linguistics.fi/contact/Book_of_abstracts_10.7.2014.pdf#page=114