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; 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
^ abNordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mongolian Sign Language". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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 (17252010), pp. 285–305
Further reading
U. Badnaa; Linda Ball (1995), Монголын Дохионы Хелний Толь, OCLC37604349
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
^a Sign-language names reflect the region of origin. Natural sign languages are not related to the spoken language used in the same region. For example, French Sign Language originated in France, but is not related to French. ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.