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Do other animals, such as chimpanzees using American sign language, show linguistic capacities?​

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Yes

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Research into great ape language has involved teaching chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans to communicate with humans and with each other using sign language, physical tokens, lexigrams (Yerkish), and mimicking human speech.

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