alternate_names: "Chiengmai Sign Language; Original Chiangmai Sign Language; Old Chiangmai Sign Language; OCMSL",
lang_description: ""OCMSL is a original sign language that developed among deaf people living in Chiang Mai in the North of Thailand long before the first school for deaf people was established in 1951." (Woodward and Wongchai, 2015)",
classification: "Sign Language; Southeast Asian",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "This language family includes original sign languages in Thailand and Hai Phong Sign Language.",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
{
id:20734,
code_id:9029,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: "No estimate available",
second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:20754,
code_id:9029,
speaker_number: "100-999",
speaker_number_text: "90-170",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "0",
young_adults: "0",
older_adults: "0",
elders: "90-170",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "2010",
public_comment: "Since there has never been a census of deaf people in Chiangmai the real number of signers is unknown. Numbers based on UN estimates.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:92080,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30580,
code_id:9029,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "~19",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "0",
young_adults: "0",
older_adults: "0",
elders: "~19",
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 19 deaf people over the age of sixty-five living in the area where OCMSL is used. The estimated number of users of OCMSL therefore is up to 19 remaining users."",