"Researchers from Cambridge University compiled a database of all that is known about languages which have disappeared in the recent past or are at risk.
Among them are Old Kentish Sign Language, a forerunner to the standard British Sign Language which was documented by Samuel Pepys in his diaries when he noted a silent conversation between a friend and his deaf servant about a fire in Whitehall in November 1666. However, no one is now thought to use it."
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