• Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard, United States, from the...
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  • Vineyard (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language). AdaSL shares signs and prosodic features with some other sign languages in the region, such as Bura Sign Language...
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    Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod. It is known for being...
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  • at ASD, which led to mutual influence of American Sign Language and Martha's Vineyard Sign Language on each other. In Europe, Aristotle and other prominent...
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    Martha's Vineyard Sign Language is now extinct. Along with French Sign Language, it was one of several main contributors to American Sign Language. Henniker...
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  • OKSL may be the origin of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, which is, in turn, one of the precursors of American Sign Language (ASL).[page needed] Others...
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    Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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  • the 23 sign languages documented by Kamei have originated with or been influenced by them. Henniker Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Old French...
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    of sign languages Pointing Sign name ASL interpreting Billingual-Bicultural Education In particular, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Henniker Sign Language...
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  • Valley Sign Language was a village sign language of the 19th-century Sandy River Valley in Maine. Together with the more famous Martha's Vineyard Sign Language...
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  • Mardin Sign Language (Turkey) Maritime Sign Language (Canada, part of the BANZSL family) Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (US) Maunabudhuk–Bodhe Sign Language...
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  • Adamorobe Sign Language Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language Kata Kolok Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Yucatec Maya Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language at Ethnologue...
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  • from Henniker were fewer than speakers of the more famous Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, deafness in Henniker was genetically dominant, and Henniker...
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  • Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language Providence Island Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language Adamorobe Sign Language Kaʼapor Sign Language at Ethnologue...
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    Angami Naga Sign Language Henniker Sign Language Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) Old French Sign Language (VLSF) Old Kentish Sign Language (OKSL) Pitta...
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  • of Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard Sharks, collegiate summer baseball team based on Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, a sign language...
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    Sign Language (ASL) and Puerto Rican Sign Language (PRSL), LSOR is a language shared by both deaf and hearing members of the community (like Martha's...
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    Manualism (category Sign language)
    indigenous sign language used in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Out of the blend of Martha's Vineyard Sign Language and French Sign Language, emerged...
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  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
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    Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, made Navajo language, the official language of Navajo Nation by signing legislation. He said “One of my priorities coming...
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    Islands] or Finoʼ Chamoru [Guam] /ˈfinoʔ t͡sɑˈmoɾu/) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about...
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    Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...
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    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
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  • community, such as Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Yucatec Maya Sign Language, Adamorobe Sign Language and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. It is unclear...
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    high rates of deafness, like Martha's Vineyard, where historically most inhabitants spoke both Martha's Vineyard Sign Language and English, or southern Israel...
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  • English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and, since 2025, the official language of the...
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    Oneida Sign Language (OSL) is a revived language with roots in Hand Talk mixed with American Sign Language and the oral Oneida language. Alongside Elder...
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  • the community, even hearing people, was using a sign language known as Martha's Vineyard Sign Language due to the high ratio of deaf people. The large...
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    17th century. There are weak rumours that Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, (one of ASL's substrate languages) descended through Kentish signers, though...
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    rates of congenital deafness such as Martha's Vineyard. However, IUR is not (or no longer) used as a contact language among the hearing. Its users are the...
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