Signing in a ‘deaf family’ – documentation of the Mardin Sign Language, Turkey
Signing in a ‘deaf family’ – documentation of the Mardin Sign Language, Turkey
is a collection of the small-scale sign language MarSLMardin Sign Language used by an extended family in Turkey. The collection was created by Ulrike Zeshan as the principal investigator and Hasan Dikyuva as researcher.
The collection contains narratives and interviews.
| Language | Mardin Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Size | 30 hours of recording |
| Participants | information not available |
| Metadata Format | ELAR HTML |
| Translation | information not available |
| Annotation | information not available |
| Data Format | ELAN |
| Licence | information not available |
| Access | Restricted access requires confirmed registration |
| Webpages |
Resource: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/30f642c1-5f7e-4053-9bdf-f4bfa0782323 
Dataset: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0000-A91F-0
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| Institution | Endangered Languages Archive |
| Publications |
Dikyuva (2012)
Zeshan and Dikyuva (2019) |
Cite as
Zeshan, Ulrike. 2015. Signing in a ‘deaf family’ – documentation of the Mardin Sign Language, Turkey. Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0000-A91F-0. Accessed on [insert date here].
References
Primary references
- Hasan Dikyuva (2012). "Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a “deaf family”". In: Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Ed. by Ulrike Zeshan, Connie de Vos. Boston/Berlin/Nijmegen: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 395-399. ISBN: 978-1-61451-203-5. DOI: 10.1515/9781614511496.
- Ulrike Zeshan, Hasan Dikyuva (2019). "Documentation of endangered sign languages: The case of Mardin Sign Language". In: Keeping languages alive: documentation, pedagogy and revitalization. Ed. by Mari C. Jones, Sarah Ogilvie. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 29-41. ISBN: 978-1-108-79040-6.
This entry was last modified on 11 April 2025.