Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

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Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

  1. A sign language, now extinct, which developed on Martha's Vineyard (an island in Massachusetts).
    • 2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2022:
      LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language.

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