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Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a sign language used in Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended from British Sign Language through the convergence of deaf communities from the Northeastern United States and the United Kingdom who immigrated to Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. As late as the mid-20th century, it was the dominant form of sign language in The Maritimes and the language of instruction at the Halifax School for the Deaf (1857–1961) and the in Amherst, Nova Scotia (1961–1995).

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  • La langue des signes maritime (en anglais : Maritime Sign Language, MSL), est la langue des signes utilisée par les personnes sourdes âgées et leurs proches dans les provinces maritimes du Canada. Elle est distincte des langues des signes américaine et québécoise utilisées dans le reste du pays. (fr)
  • Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a sign language used in Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended from British Sign Language through the convergence of deaf communities from the Northeastern United States and the United Kingdom who immigrated to Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. As late as the mid-20th century, it was the dominant form of sign language in The Maritimes and the language of instruction at the Halifax School for the Deaf (1857–1961) and the in Amherst, Nova Scotia (1961–1995). MSL is being supplanted by American Sign Language (ASL), so that by 2020, MSL has been largely restricted to older Deaf people in the Maritimes. Younger generations are educated in ASL and have less knowledge of and less regard for MSL, while some of the older generation remain loyal to MSL. The number of MSL speakers is unknown and was estimated to have been fewer than 100 in 2009; most were concentrated in Nova Scotia, some in New Brunswick, while almost none were thought to remain in Newfoundland and Labrador (only 3 were said to exist) or Prince Edward Island. ASL and MSL have 'blended' in the region. ASL has been demonstrated to influence the vocabulary and grammar of MSL, for example because the original BANZSL two-handed manual alphabet is no longer used in the Maritimes and has been replaced by the one-handed American manual alphabet, whose fingerspelling has been influencing lexicalisation. Resources (education, interpretation, etc.) for MSL speakers are largely lacking, but a grant to the Nova Scotia Cultural Society of the Deaf produced VHS tapes documenting the language, and in the 2010s a project was started to document placenames in Atlantic Canada in both MSL and ASL and has resulted in interactive online maps. The language is recorded in a 2017 documentary film, Halifax Explosion: The Deaf Experience, and was contrasted with ASL to comic effect in a piece performed at the 2019 Sound Off Theatre Festival in Edmonton about a Nova Scotian and an American travelling in Eastern Canada. (en)
  • Приморский жестовый язык (Maritime Sign Language, Nova Scotian Sign Language) — почти исчезнувший деревенский жестовый язык, который происходит от британского жестового языка и раньше использовался в провинциях Новая Шотландия, Нью-Брансуик, Ньюфаундленд и Лабрадор и Остров Принца Эдуарда в Канаде. Диалект амслен в настоящее время используется в приморских провинциях с некоторым лексическим влиянием приморского жестового языка. (ru)
  • A Língua Gestual das Províncias Marítimas (no Brasil: Língua de Sinais das Províncias Marítimas) foi uma língua gestual em temos usada pelas comunidades surdas na Nova Escócia, Novo Brunswick e Ilha do Príncipe Eduardo, no Canadá. Embora seja ainda lembrada por surdos mais idosos, actualmente caiu em desuso. O dialecto agora usado pelos surdos das Províncias Marítimas, derivado da ASL, mostra influência da antiga Língua Gestual das Marinhas. (pt)
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  • La langue des signes maritime (en anglais : Maritime Sign Language, MSL), est la langue des signes utilisée par les personnes sourdes âgées et leurs proches dans les provinces maritimes du Canada. Elle est distincte des langues des signes américaine et québécoise utilisées dans le reste du pays. (fr)
  • Приморский жестовый язык (Maritime Sign Language, Nova Scotian Sign Language) — почти исчезнувший деревенский жестовый язык, который происходит от британского жестового языка и раньше использовался в провинциях Новая Шотландия, Нью-Брансуик, Ньюфаундленд и Лабрадор и Остров Принца Эдуарда в Канаде. Диалект амслен в настоящее время используется в приморских провинциях с некоторым лексическим влиянием приморского жестового языка. (ru)
  • A Língua Gestual das Províncias Marítimas (no Brasil: Língua de Sinais das Províncias Marítimas) foi uma língua gestual em temos usada pelas comunidades surdas na Nova Escócia, Novo Brunswick e Ilha do Príncipe Eduardo, no Canadá. Embora seja ainda lembrada por surdos mais idosos, actualmente caiu em desuso. O dialecto agora usado pelos surdos das Províncias Marítimas, derivado da ASL, mostra influência da antiga Língua Gestual das Marinhas. (pt)
  • Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a sign language used in Canada's Atlantic provinces. Maritime Sign Language is descended from British Sign Language through the convergence of deaf communities from the Northeastern United States and the United Kingdom who immigrated to Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries. As late as the mid-20th century, it was the dominant form of sign language in The Maritimes and the language of instruction at the Halifax School for the Deaf (1857–1961) and the in Amherst, Nova Scotia (1961–1995). (en)
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  • Langue des signes maritime (fr)
  • Maritime Sign Language (en)
  • Língua gestual das Províncias Marítimas (pt)
  • Приморский жестовый язык (ru)
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  • Langue des Signes Maritime (en)
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