public_comment: ""Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) has arisen in the last 70 years in an isolated endogamous community with a high incidence of nonsyndromic, genetically recessive, profound pre-lingual neurosensory deafness... Within the past three generations, ≈150 individuals with congenital deafness have been born into the community... the deaf members of the community and a significant fraction of its hearing members communicate by means of a sign language. Siblings and children of deaf individuals and other members of a household (which may include a large extended family) often become fluent signers."",
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source_id:96284,
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code_id:6998,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "130?",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: ">4,630",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""Deaf and hearing infants are exposed to signing from birth, within the family environment, with additional (deaf and hearing) adult models in the community... the number of inhabitants [of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin community] is estimated to be over 4500, with nearly 130 deaf individuals"",
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source_id:96662,
preferred: 0,
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code_id:6998,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "140",
second_language_speakers: ""Also used by many of the 3,500 hearing people in the village."",