Sign Language: Maltese Sign Language

Subclassification references
Comments on subclassification

Marie Azzopardi-Alexander (2018): 275-277 says it emerged independently though with influence from BSL.

AES status:
not endangered
Source:
David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:
Maltese Sign Language (mdl-mdl) = 5 (Developing). Recognized language (2016, Maltese Sign Language Recognition Act No. XVII of 2016), declared LSM as an official language, established a Sign Language Council to promote and develop it, and to regulate interpreting services.
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