Old Bangkok Sign Language

{{Short description|Moribund sign language of Thailand}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Bangkok Sign Language

| states = Thailand

| region = metro Bangkok

| speakers = ?

| date =

| speakers2 = (moribund)

| familycolor = sign language

| family = Chiangmai–Bangkok Sign

| iso3 = none

| glotto = oldb1247

| glottorefname = Old Bangkok Sign Language

| nativename = ภาษามือกรุงเทพเก่า

| ietf = csd-u-sd-th10

}}

Bangkok Sign Language (also known as Old or Original Bangkok Sign Language; {{Langx|th|ภาษามือกรุงเทพเก่า}}) is a deaf-community sign language of Thailand that arose among deaf people who migrated to Bangkok for work or family.

The language is moribund, with all speakers born before 1960. Younger generations have switched to Thai Sign Language, which seems to have arisen as a mixture of Old Bangkok SL and American Sign Language.

References

  • {{cite book

|first=James |last=Woodward

|year=2003

|chapter=Sign Languages and Deaf Identities in Thailand and Vietnam

|title=Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities

|pages=283–301

|editor1-first=Leila |editor1-last=Monaghan

|editor2-first=Constanze |editor2-last=Schmaling

|editor3-first=Karen |editor3-last=Nakamura

|editor4-first=Graham H. |editor4-last=Turner

|publisher=Gallaudet University Press

|doi=10.2307/j.ctv2rh298v.18

|jstor=j.ctv2rh298v.18

|isbn=978-1-56368-135-6

}}

Category:Thailand Sign Language family

Category:Endangered sign languages