Maldives Sign Language

{{Short description|Deaf-community sign language}}

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|speakers=2,700

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Maldivian Sign Language (MvSL) is a sign language that was developed, largely spontaneously, by deaf children in a number of schools in Maldives in the 2000. It is of particular interest to the linguists who study it because it offers a unique opportunity to study what they believe to be the birth of a new language.

The dictionary contains signs for around 650 words supported with English and Dhivehi description explaining the hand-shape and the movement to be used while signing a particular word.{{Cite web |author= |date=28 October 2009 |title=President launches Maldivian Sign Language Dictionary |url=https://presidency.gov.mv/Press/Article/675 |access-date=9 April 2024 |website=The President's Office |publisher= |language=English |archive-date=28 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128165557/https://presidency.gov.mv/Press/Article/675 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |author= |date= |title=Alumni Biographies: Ashfaag Ahmed |url=https://www.normanet.ne.jp/~duskin/english/alumni-news/no14/person4/index.html |access-date=9 April 2024 |website=Duskin Leadership Training in Japan |language=English |archive-date=1 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601215156/https://www.normanet.ne.jp/~duskin/english/alumni-news/no14/person4/index.html |url-status=live }}