sentences:  In 1992, only approximately 36 fluent speakers could be found among an ethnic population of 649 individuals in 1992, of whom only a few scattered individuals live outside Nicaragua.The number of speakers on Rama Cay island was only 4 in 1992, due to language shift to English that engendered Rama Cay Creole.Nicaraguan Sign Language has been of particular interest to linguists as one of the few languages whose birth was recorded.