Maritime Sign Language

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

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

↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
↑ 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.

Sign language

By region^[a]

Sign languages by region

Australia	Australia: Auslan, Warlpiri, Australian Aboriginal Hawaii New Zealand Solomon Islands: Rennellese

Asia	Chinese Philippine Indonesia: Indonesian, Kata Kolok (Benkala, Balinese) Indo-Pakistani Israel: Al-Sayyid Bedouin, Israeli Japanese Korean Malaysia: Malaysian, Penang, Selangor Mongolian Nepal: Ghandruk, Jhankot, Jumla, Nepalese Persian Saudi Arabia: Saudi Singapore Sri Lankan Taiwanese Thailand: Ban Khor, Thai Vietnamese

Africa	Algerian Ghana: Adamorobe Kenyan Mali: Tebul Nigeria: Bura, Hausa Senegal: Mbour Somalia & Djibouti: Somali South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian

Europe	Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish, French Belgian British Croatian Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish France: Lyons, French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kosovar Lithuanian Macedonian Northern Ireland Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Slovenian Spain: Catalan, Spanish, Valencian Swedish Swiss Turkish

North America	Canada: Maritime, Providence Island, Quebec, Inuit Mexico: Mayan, Mexican United States: American, Plains Indian, Plateau

South America	Argentine Bolivian Brasil: Brazilian, Ka'apor Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guatemalan: Guatemalan, Mayan Honduras Nicaraguan Paraguayan Peruvian Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan

International	BANZSL International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic Signalong

Language families^[a]

Australian Aboriginal (List)
British (List)
Danish (List)
French (List)
German (List)
Japanese (List)
Indo-Pakistani (List)
Swedish (List)
Arab (List)
Isolates (List)

American Sign Language

Extinct sign languages

Martha's Vineyard
Old French
Old Kent
Rennellese (nearly)
Maritime (nearly)
Hawaiʻi (nearly)

Linguistics

Grammar (ASL)
Bimodal bilingualism
Cherology
Handshape, Location, Orientation, Movement, Expression
Mouthing
Name signs

Fingerspelling

Writing

Language contact

Media

Films (list)
Television programs (list)

Persons

Organisations

Miscellaneous

^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.