Old Costa Rican Sign Language
| Old Costa Rican Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Costa Rica |
| Region | metro San Jose |
Native speakers | perhaps 100 (1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
Linguist list |
1a4 |
| Glottolog |
orig1234[2] |
Old Costa Rican Sign Language is a deaf-community sign language of San Jose, spoken by people born before about 1945. Along with American Sign Language, it is one of the sources of New Costa Rican Sign Language. (Woodward 1991, 1992)
References
- ↑ Old Costa Rican Sign Language at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Original Costa Rican Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- James Woodward, 1991, "Sign Language Varieties in Costa Rica", in Sign Language Studies 73, p.329-346
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