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Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a village sign language derived from British Sign Language and formerly used in Nova Scotia Newfoundland New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Canada. It is still remembered by some elderly people (approximately 100 as of 2009 ) but is effectively extinct.The dialect of American Sign Language currently used in the Maritimes exhibits some lexical influence from MSL.

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