Catalan Sign Language

Catalan Sign Language

language
name= Catalan Sign Language


caption=
nativename=CSE, "lengua de signos o señas catalana" in Spanish, "llengua de signes catalana" in Catalan
fam1=Sign language
states=Spain
region= Catalonia
signers=~20,000, maybe 32,000 (7,000 deafs)
iso2=none|iso3=csc

Llengua de Signes Catalana in Catalan, Lengua de señas o signos catalana in Spanish, Catalan Sign Language, Catalonian Sign language or LSC is a Sign language used by 32,000 signers (7000 deaf) in Catalonia. About 50% intelligibility by users of Spanish Sign Language.

Since 1994, it has an official status thanks to a law to promote and diffuse the language promulgated by Generalitat de Catalunya. Catalonia was the first Spanish Autonomous Community to approve a law for a Sign language.

FESOCA ("Catalan Federation of Deaf People") is a 1979 NGO to represent and to defend the rights of deaf associations and individuals to achieve a full social participation and integration. FESOCA organises several courses, activities and meetings.

There are researching groups for LSC like ILLESCAT (LSC Centre of Studies). This centre studies the evolution of the language, makes linguistic studies and creates new neologisms. Besides, the "Platform for Linguistic and Cultural Rights for LSC Users" aka "LSC, Ara!" carried out a law to promote this language in the "estatut."

ee also

Catalan manual alphabet

Links

: [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=csc Ethnologue]


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