Meanings
- A sign language, now extinct, which developed on Martha's Vineyard (an island in Massachusetts).
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.
2020 April 27, Meg Medina, “A Deaf Girl Finds Her Voice on Martha's Vineyard in the 19th Century”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022
Cite this entry
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Martha's%20Vineyard%20Sign%20Language
“Martha's Vineyard Sign Language.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Martha's%20Vineyard%20Sign%20Language. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Martha's Vineyard Sign Language,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Martha's%20Vineyard%20Sign%20Language.
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