Mongolian Sign Language
| Mongolian Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mongolia |
| 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[update]; however, it is not known how many of those are users of MSL.[2] Mongolian Sign Language is widely spoken in areas where Mongolian diaspora have immigrated. Such locations involve California, Houston, and Charleston.
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] The online bible and bible study material is published in Mongolian Sign Language by Jehovah's Witnesses.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mongolian Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Mongolian Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Peace Corps Times 1995, p. 6
- ^ Torigoe 2008, p. 286
- ^ "Еховагийн Гэрчүүд".
Sources[edit]
- "Now That's a Good Sign!" (PDF), Peace Corps Times (1), January 1995
- Torigoe, Takashi (April 2008), "モンゴルのろう教育・現地調査報告/Deaf education in Mongolia: Report of fieldwork", 『途上国における特別支援教育開発の国際協力に関する研究』 (PDF), 科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書, pp. 285–305
Further reading[edit]
- U. Badnaa; Linda Ball (1995), Монголын Дохионы Хелний Толь, OCLC 37604349
- Baljinnyam, N. 2007. A study of the developing Mongolian Sign Language. Master’s thesis, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanbaatar.
- Geer, L. (2011). Kinship in Mongolian Sign Language. Sign Language Studies 11(4):594–605.
- Geer, Leah. 2012. Sources of Variation in Mongolian Sign Language. Texas Linguistics Forum 55:33-42. (Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium About Language and Society—Austin) Online version
External links[edit]
- Homepage of Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan at the National University of Mongolia, with a listing of his Mongolian-language papers about MSL
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