Catalan Sign Language

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Catalan Sign Language is a natural visual-gestural language used primarily by the Deaf community in Catalonia, Spain, with its own grammar and lexicon distinct from spoken Catalan and Spanish.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf natural language
sign language
country Spain
glottocode cata1286
hasAlternativeName Catalan Sign NERFINISHED
LSC NERFINISHED
Llengua de signes catalana NERFINISHED
hasCommunity Catalan Deaf community
hasCorpus video corpora collected by Catalan universities
hasGrammar distinct from Spanish grammar
distinct from spoken Catalan grammar
hasLexicon distinct from Spanish vocabulary
distinct from spoken Catalan vocabulary
hasMorphology classifier constructions
rich non-manual morphology
use of spatial agreement
hasResearchField sign linguistics
hasWordOrder relatively flexible word order
hasWritingSystem no widely used native writing system
isDistinctFrom Spanish Sign Language NERFINISHED
spoken Catalan
spoken Spanish
isNotDialectOf Spanish Sign Language NERFINISHED
ISO6393Code csc NERFINISHED
languageFamily French Sign Language family
legalRecognitionYear 2010
legalStatus official language of Catalonia for the Deaf community
modality gestural
visual
primaryUsers Deaf community in Catalonia
children of deaf adults in Catalonia
hard of hearing people in Catalonia
recognizedBy Government of Catalonia NERFINISHED
region Catalonia
regulatedBy Catalan Sign Language Center NERFINISHED
Plataforma per la Llengua de Signes Catalana (advocacy) NERFINISHED
usedIn Balearic Islands NERFINISHED
Barcelona NERFINISHED
Catalonia NERFINISHED
Valencian Community (to a lesser extent) NERFINISHED
usedInEducation bilingual education programs for deaf students in Catalonia
usedInInterpreting public services in Catalonia
usedInMedia interpreted news broadcasts in Catalonia
usesArticulation body posture
facial expressions
handshapes
locations in signing space
movements

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French Sign Language family hasMember Catalan Sign Language