Maritime Sign Language
Maritime Sign Language (MSL) | |
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Langue des Signes Maritime | |
Native to | Canada |
Region | Atlantic Canada |
Native speakers | 90 (2009)[1] |
BANZSL
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none | |
Official status | |
Official language in | none |
Recognised minority language in | none |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nsr |
Glottolog | mari1381 |
ELP | Maritime Sign Language |
Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a
Maritime Sign Language is descended from British Sign Language
MSL is being supplanted by
Resources (education, interpretation, etc.) for MSL speakers are largely lacking, but a grant to the Nova Scotia Cultural Society of the Deaf produced VHS tapes documenting the language, and in the 2010s a project was started to document placenames in Atlantic Canada in both MSL and ASL, resulting in interactive online maps.[3]
The language is recorded in a 2017 documentary film, Halifax Explosion: The Deaf Experience, and was contrasted with ASL to comic effect in a piece performed at the 2019 Sound Off Theatre Festival in Edmonton about a Nova Scotian and an American travelling in Eastern Canada.[3]
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References
- ^ Maritime Sign Language (MSL) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ^ a b c d e f Davie, Emma (31 December 2019). "How the deaf community is preserving Maritime Sign Language". CBC News.
- ^ a b c d e f Yoel, Judith (2009). Canada's Maritime Sign Language (PDF) (PhD thesis). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
- ISBN 9780771020995. Retrieved 16 April 2020.