Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

English Proper noun Martha's Vineyard Sign Language A sign language, now extinct, which developed on Martha's Vineyard an island in Massachusetts. https://web.archive.org/web/20221205210834/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/books/review/show-me-a-sign-ann-clare-lezotte.html Meg Medina Meg Medina A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century 2020-04-27 LeZotte also gives readers a sense of M.V.S.L. (Martha's Vineyard Sign Language), used by the islanders through the mid-1900s but never fully documented, by combining "home signs" she used as a child with variations of American Sign Language. Further reading 1 mre en Languages Extinct languages Names of sign languages