Maritime Sign Language
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| Maritime Sign Language | |
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| MSL | |
| Native to | Canada |
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Native speakers
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moribund (2009)[1] |
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BANZSL
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nsr |
| Glottolog | mari1381[2] |
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Maritime Sign Language (MSL), is a village sign language[3] derived from British Sign Language and formerly used in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada.[4] It is still remembered by some elderly people (approximately 100 in 2009)[1] but is effectively extinct.[5]
The dialect of American Sign Language currently used in the Maritimes exhibits some lexical influence from MSL.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Canada's Maritime Sign Language by Yoel, Judith, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA , 2009
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maritime Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Carol Padden, Sign language geography, UC San Diego
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. [1]
- ^ Mathur, Gaurav; Napoli, Donna Jo, eds. (2010). "Sign language geography" (PDF). Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-973254-8.
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