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Mongolian Sign Language

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Native to
  
Mongolia

Glottolog
  
mong1264

ISO 639-3
  
msr

Language family
  
Russian Sign Language? Mongolian Sign Language

Mongolian Sign Language (Mongolian: 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 as of 1998; however, it is not known how many of those are users of MSL.

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.

References

Mongolian Sign Language Wikipedia