__NOTOC__ Mongolian Sign Language (MSL; ) is a

sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with #Non-manual elements, no ...

used in

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. ''

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'' estimates that there are between 9,000 and 15,000 deaf signers in Mongolia . A school for the deaf was established in Mongolia in 1964 with assistance from the

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. This resulted in many similarities between MSL and Russian Sign Language (RSL) for a time, but the two languages have since developed to be separate and distinct. Linda Ball, a

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volunteer in Mongolia, is believed to have created the first dictionary of MSL in 1995. In 2007, another MSL dictionary with 3,000 entries was published by Mongolia's Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science with assistance from

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of Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan at the National University of Mongolia, with a listing of his Mongolian-language papers about MSL Sign languages Languages of Mongolia {{mongolia-stub

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