Old Kentish Sign Language
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| Old Kentish Sign Language | |
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| OKSL | |
| Native to | formerly the United Kingdom |
| Region | Kent, England |
| Extinct | 17th century? |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | okl |
okl.html | |
| Glottolog | oldk1238 |
Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL, also Old Kent Sign Language) was a village sign language of 17th-century Kent in the United Kingdom, that has been incorporated along with other village sign languages into British Sign Language.
According to Peter Webster Jackson (2001), OKSL may have been the language used by a deaf boy described by 17th century British writer
deaf.[2][page needed
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As settlers of the Martha's Vineyard communities of Tisbury and Chilmark in Massachusetts migrated from the Kentish Weald, Nora Groce (1985) speculates that OKSL may be the origin of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, which is, in turn, one of the precursors of American Sign Language (ASL).[3][page needed] Others have cautioned against uncritical reception of this claim, "because no deaf people were part of the original migration from Kent, and nothing is known about any specific variety of signing used in Kent."[4]
References
- ISBN 978-0953220649.
- ISBN 978-0002555111.
- ISBN 0-674-27040-1.
- ISBN 0-521-79137-5.
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