Maximum historical range of Maritime Sign Language among other sign languages in the US and Canada (excl. ASL and LSQ).
Maritime Sign Language (MSL), is a sign language descended from British Sign Language and spoken in Canada'sAtlantic provinces.[2] It is unknown the extent to which this language is spoken today, though there are linguistic communities found across the Atlantic provinces. MSL is being supplanted by American Sign Language (ASL) resulting in fewer MSL speakers and a lack of resources (education, interpretation, etc.) for MSL speakers.
The dialect of ASL currently spoken in the Maritimes exhibits some lexical influence from MSL.
^Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maritime Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)[1]
^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.
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