Maritime Sign Language

Maritime Sign Language
MSL
Native to Canada
Native speakers
 moribund (2009)[1]
BANZSL
  • Maritime Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nsr
Glottolog mari1381[2]

  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 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

  1. 1 2 Canada's Maritime Sign Language by Yoel, Judith, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA , 2009
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maritime Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Carol Padden, Sign language geography, UC San Diego
  4. ↑ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.
  5. ↑ 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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