7187 (Original Bangkok Sign Language)

{

id: 7187,
code_val: "1kw",
code_authorities: "LINGUIST List",
primary_name: "Original Bangkok Sign Language",
alternate_names: "Old Bangkok Sign Language",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Sign Language; Southeast Asian",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: ""OBSL is an original sign language that developed among deaf people living in Bangkok in the Central Area of Thailand long before the first school for deaf people was established in 1951. Like users of other typical original sign languages, Deaf people who use OBSL have a separate Deaf Linguistic Identify... The massive introduction of American Sign Language vocabulary into the Thai deaf educational system severed the historical connection between OBSL and Modern Thai Sign Language." (Woodward & Suwanarat, 2015)",
private_comment: null,
source_id: 89800,
speakers: [
- {
  - id: 15556,
  - code_id: 7187,
  - speaker_number: "100-999",
  - speaker_number_text: "600-1,300",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "0",
  - young_adults: "0",
  - older_adults: "0",
  - elders: "600-1.300",
  - ethnic_population: "",
  - date_of_info: "",
  - public_comment: "600-1,300 users (2012); signers over the age of 60.",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 89320,
  - preferred: 0,
  },
- {
  - id: 30579,
  - code_id: 7187,
  - speaker_number: "100-999",
  - speaker_number_text: "~495",
  - second_language_speakers: "",
  - semi_speakers: "",
  - children: "0",
  - young_adults: "0",
  - older_adults: "",
  - elders: "~495",
  - ethnic_population: "",
  - date_of_info: "",
  - public_comment: ""Since there has never been a census of deaf people in Bangkok, the real number of signers is unknown. However, some estimate of the number of signers can be made... Using United Nations estimates for urban areas of 1 person out of every 1,000 person born profoundly deaf or becoming profoundly deaf at an early age, there would be an estimate of 495 deaf people over the age of sixty-five living in the area where OBSL is used."",
  - private_comment: null,
  - source_id: 98648,
  - preferred: 1,
  },
],
language: {
- code_id: 7187,
- featured: 0,
- cached_documentation_score: -1,
- google_group_url: "",
- simplified_level: "high",
- coordinates: "13.727,100.524",
- updated_at: "2018-03-18 01:00:50",
- speaker_attitude: "",
- government_support: "no",
- institutional_support: "no",
- _other_languages_used: "Mordern Thai Sign Language (MTSL)",
- domains_of_use: "Used only in a few very specific domains, such as in ceremonies, songs, prayer, proverbs, or certain limited domestic activities.",
- speakers_worldwide: "~495",
- second_language_speakers: null,
- semi_speakers: "",
- children: "0",
- young_adults: "0",
- older_adults: "",
- elders: "~495",
- ethnic_population: "",
- speakers_worldwide_year: "",
- bibliography_of_vitality: "98648",
- bibliography_of_context: "98648",
- bibliography_of_locations: "89320",
- user_submission: null,
- approved: 1,
- speakers_int_cache: 495,
- has_audio_samples: 0,
- has_document_samples: 0,
- has_image_samples: 0,
- has_guide_samples: 0,
- has_video_samples: 0,
- search_simplified_level: "CE",
- user_id: 1,
- code_val_cache: "1kw",
- has_link_samples: 0,
- submission_source_info: null,
- countries: [
  - {
    - id: 136,
    - name: "Thailand",
    - pivot: {
      - language_id: 7187,
      - country_id: 136,
      },
    },
  ],
},

}