can you tell me the names of any person on that island who communicated by this language?
Katie West
Martha's Vineyard
Katie West
american sign language was brought to america from which country Spain how is this particular type of mentioned language expressed? ASL signs have a number of phonemic components, such as movement of the face, the torso, and the hands. ASL is not a form of pantomime although iconicity plays a larger role in ASL than in spoken languages. is this particular type of mentioned language expressed only in the united states or in other parts of the world too? West African countries, Barbados, Bolivia, Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Chad, China (Hong Kong), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Zimbabwe. are there any varieties of this particular type of mentioned language? Varieties of ASL are found throughout the world. Mutual intelligibility among those ASL varieties is high, and the variation is primarily lexical. is there someone in the historical days who is responsible for developing this language for the deaf? Francisco Vásquez de Coronado who is the person? Spanish explorer what are some of the examples of dialects that evolved from this particular type of mentioned language? A "triangle" of village sign languages developed. One in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; one in Henniker, New Hampshire, and one in Sandy River Valley, Maine. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL), which was particularly important for the history of ASL, was used mainly in Chilmark, Massachusetts. why is this language named as 'martha vineyard'? It was once widely used by both Deaf and hearing people on the island of Martha's Vineyard where exactly is that island located? South of Cape Cod in Massachusetts in the United States
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Martha's Vineyard [SEP] Hereditary deafness and sign language
MVSL was commonly used by hearing residents as well as Deaf ones until the middle of the 20th century. No language barrier created a smooth communication environment for all the residences on the island. In the 20th century, tourism became a mainstay in the island economy, and new tourism-related jobs appeared. However, jobs in tourism were not as deaf-friendly as fishing and farming had been. Consequently, as intermarriage and further migration joined the people of Martha's Vineyard to the mainland, the island community more and more resembled the oral community there. The last deaf person born into the island's sign-language tradition, Katie West, died in 1952, but a few elderly residents were able to recall MVSL as recently as the 1980s when research into the language began.