Costa Rican Sign Language
Costa Rican Sign Language | |
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Native to | Costa Rica |
Native speakers | (no estimate available)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
csr |
Glottolog |
cost1249 [2] |
Costa Rican Sign Language, also known New Costa Rican Sign Language or Modern Costa Rican Sign Language, is the national sign language of Costa Rica's Deaf community. It is used primarily by people born after 1960, and is about 60% cognate with American Sign Language (Woodward 1991, 1992). It is unrelated to two known village sign languages of Costa Rica, Bribri Sign Language and Brunca Sign Language.
References
- ↑ Costa Rican Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "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
- Gaurav Mathur & Donna Jo Napoli, 2010, Deaf around the World: The Impact of Language, Oxford University Press, page 43