Bangkok Sign Language (also known as Old or Original Bangkok Sign Language; ) is a deaf-community sign language of Thailand that arose among deaf people who migrated to

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estim ...

for work or family. The language is moribund, with all speakers born before 1960. Younger generations have switched to

Thai Sign Language Thai Sign Language (TSL; ), or Modern Standard Thai Sign Language (MSTSL), is the national sign language of Thailand's deaf community and is used in most parts of the country by the 20 percent of the estimated 56,000 pre-linguistically deaf peopl ...

, which seems to have arisen as a mixture of Old Bangkok SL and

American Sign Language American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canadians, Anglophone Canada. ASL is a complete and organized visual language that i ...

References

* {{cite book , first=James , last=Woodward , year=2003 , chapter=Sign Languages and Deaf Identities in Thailand and Vietnam , title=Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities , pages=283–301 , editor1-first=Leila , editor1-last=Monaghan , editor2-first=Constanze , editor2-last=Schmaling , editor3-first=Karen , editor3-last=Nakamura , editor4-first=Graham H. , editor4-last=Turner , publisher=Gallaudet University Press , doi=10.2307/j.ctv2rh298v.18 , jstor=j.ctv2rh298v.18 , isbn=978-1-56368-135-6 Thailand Sign Language family Endangered sign languages