British Sign Language has been a recognised language in its own right since 2003, as complex and expressive as English, French, Welsh or any other language according to Linguistics of British Sign Language by B. Woll and R. Sutton-Spence of Bristol Centre for Deaf Studies. Neither is sign language universal, each country has its own sign language and within that, regional accents.
Each year, hundreds of adults enlist in sign language courses either because they know somebody who is Deaf or because they are fascinated by the beauty of visual language.
