Sign Language: Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

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Historical evidence points to a relation between Martha's Vineyard Sign Language [mart1251] and Old Kentish Sign Language [oldk1238] ( Groce, Nora Ellen 1985 , Joan Cottle Poole Nash 2015: 608-612 ).

Endangerment
AES status:
extinct
Source:
Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (7209-mre) = Dormant (The language fell out of use with the death of the last signing deaf resident of the town of Chilmark in 1952." "In 1950, Eva West Look, the last of the Chilmark hereditary deaf, died. Katie West, her sister-in-law, whom Eva had brought to the Vineyard, died in 1952. Though some hearing Chilmarkers continued to use the sign language among themselves, they did not use it with people in the town who became deaf, nor with people from out of town.)

(see Nash 2015)

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