Maritime Sign Language | |
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MSL | |
Signed in | Canada |
Native signers | few; now moribund (date missing) |
Language family |
BANZSL
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nsr |
Maritime Sign Language (MSL), is a sign language, derived from British Sign Language, formerly used in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada.[1] It is still remembered by some elderly people, and as of 2009 had approximately 100 signers,[2] but is effectively extinct.[3]
The dialect of American Sign Language currently used in the Maritimes exhibits some lexical influence from MSL.