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Mongolian Sign Language ( mn, Монгол дохионы хэл, Mongol dokhiony khel) is a
sign language used in
Mongolia. ''
Ethnologue
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'' estimates that there are between 9,000 and 15,000 deaf signers in Mongolia . Mongolian Sign Language is widely used in areas where the
Mongolian diaspora
Mongolian diaspora refers to people of Mongolia who live outside their country of origin. According to the Mongolian census of 2010, 107,140 Mongolian nationals were reported to be living abroad for more than six months. The largest Mongolian popul ...
has immigrated. Such locations include California, Houston, and Charleston.
A school for the deaf was established in Mongolia in 1964 by the occupying
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.
Linda Ball, a
Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, is believed to have created the first dictionary of MSL in 1995. In 2007, another MSL dictionary with 3,000 entries was published by Mongolia's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science with assistance from
UNESCO.
Notes
Sources
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Further reading
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*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
External links
Homepageof
Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan ( mn, Юмжирийн Мөнх-Амгалан) (born 1956 in Bayanmönkh, Khentii) is a Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Mongolia.
Mönkh-Amgalan earned his M.A. (1979), PhD (1993), and Doctor of Sc ...
at the National University of Mongolia, with a listing of his Mongolian-language papers about MSL
Sign languages
Languages of Mongolia
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