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Old Costa Rican Sign Language

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Native to
  
Costa Rica

Native speakers
  
perhaps 100 (1991)

Linguist list
  
1a4

Region
  
metro San Jose

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Language family
  
deaf-community 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. (Woodward 1991, 1992)

References

Old Costa Rican Sign Language Wikipedia