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- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language abstract "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign language once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S., from the early 18th century to 1952. It was used by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness did not become a barrier to participation in public life. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language played a role in the development of American Sign Language.The language was able to thrive on Martha's Vineyard because of the unusually high percentage of deaf islanders and because deafness was a recessive hereditary trait, which meant that almost anyone might have both deaf and hearing siblings. In 1854, when the island's deaf population peaked, the United States national average was one deaf person in 5728, while on Martha's Vineyard it was one in 155. In the town of Chilmark, which had the highest concentration of deaf people on the island, the average was 1 in 25; in a section of Chilmark called Squibnocket, as much as a quarter of the population of 60 was deaf.Hearing people sometimes signed even when there were no deaf people present: children signed behind a schoolteacher's back; adults signed to one another during church sermons; and farmers signed to their children across a wide field, where the spoken word would not carry.".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language iso6393Code "mre".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language spokenIn Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language spokenIn Massachusetts.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageID "37257060".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageID "390846".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageLength "6897".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageLength "69".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageOutDegree "1".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageOutDegree "45".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageRedirects Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageRevisionID "573468926".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageRevisionID "706221010".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Adamorobe_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Al-Sayyid_Bedouin_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink American_School_for_the_Deaf.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink American_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Deaf_culture_in_the_United_States.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages_of_North_America.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Village_sign_languages.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Chilmark,_Massachusetts.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Chilmark_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Deaf_culture.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Dominance_(genetics).
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Endogamy.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Founder_effect.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink French_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Hartford,_Connecticut.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Hearing_(person).
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Hearing_loss.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Home_sign.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Kata_Kolok.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Kent.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink List_of_extinct_languages_of_North_America.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts_Bay_Colony.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Mayan_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Nicaraguan_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Old_Kentish_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Oliver_Sacks.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Puritans.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Sandy_River_Valley_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Village_sign_language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink Weald.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLink File:Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language_(MSVL)_of_the_past.ogv.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "MVSL".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Martha's Vineyard".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language ancestor Chilmark_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language ancestor Old_Kentish_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language dia Sandy_River_Valley_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language extinct "with the death of Katie West".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language family Village_sign_language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language familycolor "Sign".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language glotto "mart1251".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language glottorefname "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language iso "mre".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language linglist "mre".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language name "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language nativename "MVSL".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language region Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language region Massachusetts.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language states "United States".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Languages_of_Massachusetts.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:R_from_modification.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sign_language_navigation.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:American_Sign_Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Articles_containing_video_clips.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Deaf_culture_in_the_United_States.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Extinct_languages_of_North_America.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language subject Category:Village_sign_languages.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language hypernym Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Isolate.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Redirect.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Language.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Thing.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Q315.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language type Q34770.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language comment "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign language once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, U.S., from the early 18th century to 1952. It was used by both deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness did not become a barrier to participation in public life.".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language label "Martha's Vineyard Sign Language".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language label "Marthas Vineyard Sign Language".
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Q33494.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Martha’s_Vineyards_Gebärdensprache.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Lingua_dei_segni_di_Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Martha’s_Vineyard-tegnspråk.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Lenga_dij_segn_Marthas_Vineyard.
- Marthas_Vineyard_Sign_Language sameAs Lxc3xadngua_de_Sinais_de_Marthas_Vineyard.