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Native Speakers Worldwide

~40

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Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family"
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~40

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"MarSL is currently used by an estimated 40 people, including both deaf and hearing members of the Dilsiz family."

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Turkey

Coordinates

37.322566, 40.725635

Location description

"MarSL originated in Mardin, a town in south-eastern Turkey close to the Syrian border."

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"MarSL originated in Mardin, a town in south-eastern Turkey close to the Syrian border."

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Other languages used

Turkish Sign Language

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Child speakers

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Year of info

2008

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"In the town of Mardin in South-eastern Turkey, deafness has been widespread in one particular extended family and can be traced back at least five generations. The family's last name is Dilsiz, which means "deaf" (literally tongue-less) in Turkish. Most of the signers are now bilingual in Mardin Sign Language and Turkish Sign Language, and the younger deaf people only have partial passive competence, using Turkish Sign Language exclusively. As far as is known so far, all sign language users have by now moved away from Mardin and now live in Istanbul and Izmir, where about 40 deaf and hearing people still use MardinSL."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

40

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Child speakers

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(2008)

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Turkey

Coordinates

37.321, 40.724

Location description

Mardin, southeastern Turkey

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Mardin, southeastern Turkey

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~40

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

No data

Semi-speakers

No data

Child speakers

No data

Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Mardin, Turkey; Istanbul, Izmir

Coordinates

37.321, 40.724

Location description

mainly in Mardin, southeastern Turkey

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

mainly in Mardin, southeastern Turkey

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Other languages used

Turkish Sign Language

Domains of other languages

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. "Signing in a " HRELP Abstract
    Zeshan, Ulrike. 2010. ""Signing in a " HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=203.
    http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=203
  3. Personal Communication on sign languages
    James Woodward. 2012. "Personal Communication on sign languages."
  4. Mardin Sign Language
    Hasan Dikyuva. 2008. "Mardin Sign Language." Online: http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/journalism_media_communication/islands/villagesign/mardin_sl.php.
    http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/journalism_media_communication/islands/villagesign/mardin_sl.php
  5. Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family"
    Hasan Dikyuva. 2012. "Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf Family"." In Sign Languages in Village Communities, edited by Ulrike Zeshan and Connie de Vos. de Gruyter.