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}}Mongolian Sign Language ({{lang-mn|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 {{asof|1998|lc=on}}; however, it is not known how many of those are users of MSL.[1] 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.[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
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2. ^{{harvnb|Peace Corps Times|1995|p=6}}
3. ^{{harvnb|Torigoe|2008|p=286}}
Sources
- {{citation|date=January 1995|number=1|journal=Peace Corps Times|title=Now That's a Good Sign!|url=http://peacecorpsonline.org/historyofthepeacecorps/primarysources/19950101%20PC%20Times_Winter.pdf|ref=CITEREFPeace_Corps_Times1995}}
- {{citation|chapter=モンゴルのろう教育・現地調査報告/Deaf education in Mongolia: Report of fieldwork|url=http://e-archives.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/data/doc/pdf/2008/04/200804242417.pdf|pages=285–305|date=April 2008|journal=|last=Torigoe|first=Takashi|series=科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書|number=17252010|title={{asiantitle|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|||j}}}}
Further reading
- {{citation|author=U. Badnaa|author2=Linda Ball|title=Монголын Дохионы Хелний Толь|year=1995|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) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313876266_Sources_of_Variation_in_Mongolian_Sign_Language Online version]
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120227200050/http://smlc.num.edu.mn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=257&Itemid=82&limitstart=1 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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