Mongolian_Sign_Language

Mongolian Sign Language

Mongolian Sign Language

Deaf sign language of Mongolia

Mongolian Sign Language (MSL; Mongolian: Монгол дохионы хэл, Mongol dokhiony khel) is a sign language used in Mongolia. Ethnologue estimates that there are between 9,000 and 15,000 deaf signers in Mongolia as of 2019.[3] Mongolian Sign Language is widely used in areas where the Mongolian diaspora has immigrated. Such locations include California, Houston, and Charleston.[citation needed]

Quick Facts Native to, Native speakers ...

A school for the deaf was established in Mongolia in 1964 with assistance from the Soviet Union. This resulted in many similarities between MSL and Russian Sign Language (RSL) for a time, but the two languages have since developed to be separate and distinct.[4]

Linda Ball, a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, is believed to have created the first dictionary of MSL in 1995.[5] In 2007, another MSL dictionary with 3,000 entries was published by Mongolia's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science with assistance from UNESCO.[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Mongolian Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Mongolian Sign Language". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. [3]
    Mongolian Sign Language at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  4. [4]
    Geer, Leah (2011). "Kinship in Mongolian Sign Language". Sign Language Studies. 11 (4): 594–605. doi:10.1353/sls.2011.0007. ISSN 1533-6263. S2CID 144028961.
  5. [5]
    Peace Corps Times 1995, p. 6
  6. [6]
    Torigoe 2008, p. 286

Sources

Further reading

  • 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


Stub icon

This Mongolia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Mongolian_Sign_Language, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.