Old Costa Rican Sign Language

{{Short description|Deaf sign language of Costa Rica}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Old Costa Rican Sign Language

|states=Costa Rica

|region=metro San Jose

|speakers=perhaps 100

|date=1991

|ref=linglist

|familycolor = sign language

|family=deaf-community sign language

|iso3=none

|linglist=1a4

|glotto=orig1234

|glottorefname=Original Costa Rican Sign Language

}}

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.{{sfn|Woodward|1991}}

References

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=Bibliography=

  • {{cite journal

|first= James |last=Woodward

|year= 1991

|title= Sign Language Varieties in Costa Rica

|journal= Sign Language Studies

|number= 73

|pages= 329-346

|doi= 10.1353/sls.1991.0022 |doi-access= free

|jstor= 26204768

}}

Category:Sign language isolates

Category:Sign languages of Costa Rica

Category:Language isolates of North America