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Maritime Sign Language
MSL
Spoken in	Canada
Native speakers	few; now moribund (2009)
Language family	BANZSL Maritime Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nsr`

Maritime Sign Language (MSL), is a village sign language^[1] derived from British Sign Language and formerly used in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada.^[2] It is still remembered by some elderly people, as of 2009 approximately 100,^[3] but is effectively extinct.^[4]

The dialect of American Sign Language currently used in the Maritimes exhibits some lexical influence from MSL.

References

^ 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. [1]
^ Canada's Maritime Sign Language by Yoel, Judith, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA , 2009
^ Mathur, Gaurav; Napoli, Donna Jo, eds. (2010). "Sign language geography". Deaf Around the World: The Impact of Language. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-19-973254-8. http://communication.ucsd.edu/cpadden/sites/default/files/Padden%20SL%20Geography.pdf.

Sign language

By region^[a]

Sign languages by region

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

Asia	Chinese Filipino 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 South African Tanzanian Ugandan Zambian

Europe	Armenian Austrian Belgium: Flemish 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, Tijuana United States: American, Plains Indian, Plateau

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

International	BANZSL International Sign (Gestuno) Makaton Monastic

Language families^[a]

Australian Aboriginal (List)
British (List)
Danish (List)
French (List)
German (List)
Japanese (List)
Swedish (List)
Isolates (List)

American Sign Language

Extinct sign languages

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

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^a Sign language names denote the region of origin. A sign language is not related to a spoken language. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to the French language.

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