Old Kentish Sign Language
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Old Kentish Sign Language
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Old Kentish Sign Language was a village sign language of 17th-century Kent in the United Kingdom, that has been incorporated along with other village sign languages into British Sign Language. According to Peter Webster Jackson (2001), OKSL may have been the language used by a deaf boy described by 17th century British writer Samuel Pepys in his Diaries. Pepys was dining with his friend Sir George Downing on 9 November 1666, when the deaf servant had a conversation in sign language with his mast
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Former sign language of Kent, England, UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kentish_Sign_Language
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2024-04-09T08:32:51Z
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