Mongolian Sign Language

Mongolian Sign Language
Native to Mongolia
Russian Sign Language?[1]
  • Mongolian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 msr
Glottolog mong1264[1]

Mongolian Sign Language (Mongolian: Монгол дохионы хэл, Mongol dokhiony khel) is a sign language used in Mongolia. Ethnologue estimates that there were between 10,000 and 147,000 deaf people in Mongolia as of 1998; however, it is not known how many of those are users of MSL.[2]

Linda Ball, a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, is believed to have created the first dictionary of MSL in 1995.[3] In 2007, another MSL dictionary with 3,000 entries was published by Mongolia's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science with assistance from UNESCO.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mongolian Sign Language". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Mongolian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Peace Corps Times 1995, p. 6
  4. Torigoe 2008, p. 286

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