Mongolian Sign Language

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 to 147,000 deaf people in Mongolia as of 1998^[update]; however, it is not known how many of those are users of MSL.^[1]

Linda Ball, a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, is believed to have created the first dictionary of MSL in 1995.^[2] In 2007, another MSL dictionary with 3,000 entries was published by Mongolia's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science with assistance from UNESCO.^[3]

Notes

Sources

• "Now That's a Good Sign!", Peace Corps Times (1), January 1995, http://peacecorpsonline.org/historyofthepeacecorps/primarysources/19950101%20PC%20Times_Winter.pdf 
• 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』, 科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書, pp. 285–305, http://e-archives.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/data/doc/pdf/2008/04/200804242417.pdf 
• Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009), "Mongolian Sign Language", Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Sixteenth ed.), Dallas, Texas: SIL International, http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=msr 

Further reading

• U. Badnaa; Linda Ball (1995), Монголын Дохионы Хелний Толь, OCLC 37604349 

External links

• Homepage of Yu.Mönkh-Amgalan at the National University of Mongolia, with a listing of his Mongolian-language papers about MSL

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