Anyone think they can answer this?

[jgu1994]

If a person was born deaf, in what language do they think?

 

[Urza]

In sign language, generally.

Seems pretty obvious to me.

 

[haflore]

In pictures, I would suppose.

 

[CamulaHikari]

Agree with the sign language. But I think that, since deaf people can learn to read, they maybe think in words as well, but like how we think with the sound of the words they just see the letters.

 

[ProtoKun7]

In sign language, generally.

Seems pretty obvious to me.

I also thought this.

 

[dbkdbk]

haha, i agree with Haflore,
theres also the possibility that theyll just develop some sort of own language in their head, or anything that just communicates any sort of message.
oh, and theres something thats been bugging me for a while.
is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?

 

[jgu1994]

But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.

 

[The Pi]

They don't think

I'd say visually which would also includes sign language.

 

[basher11]

straight from google because im lazy

Spoiler

Can you think without language? Answer: Nope, at least not at the level humans are accustomed to. That's why deafness can have far more serious consequences than blindness, developmentally speaking. The blind suffer many hardships, not the least of which is the inability to read in the usual manner. But even those sightless from birth acquire language by ear without difficulty in infancy, and having done so lead relatively ordinary lives. A congenitally deaf child isn't so lucky: unless someone realizes very early that he's not talking because he can't hear, his grasp of communication may never progress beyond the rudiments.

 

[Depravo]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

 

[Urza]

is sign language a language itself, or is it something to represent a language?
It is a language itself.

QUOTEBut that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.

The way that a deaf person thinks is probably incomprehensible to someone who isn't deaf.

 

[jgu1994]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

 

[Depravo]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

So?

 

[CamulaHikari]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

That's true but maybe they see the words (in letters) when they think, like reading a book?

 

[haflore]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

Then in subtitles, like a movie.

 

[gamefreak94]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

Then in subtitles, like a movie.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[sputnix]

Probably the same language they learned to read and write in.

But they've never heard what the language actually sounds like.

So?

When a person speaks you also think the word at the same time, like when you mouth words you still hear what your saying because your thinking it.
When a person is deaf, very rarely will they lose all hearing capabilities, so after a very long period they can learn a language thus they are able to think it.
And besides it would be impossible to learn sign language if they can't hear the word it means

 

[ProtoKun7]

But that just wouldn't make sense. It's hard to explain in words why but it just doesn't make sense to me.

Even if you could they wouldn't be able to hear your explanation.

 

[retKHAAAN]

i believe the deaf think using images. it be kind of silly to picture 2 hands signing in your head.

 

[Gore]

I was thinking about this before, not about deaf but wondering how someone would think without words, we need words to think..