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languages:catalan_sign_language_in_spain [2023/04/03 12:53] – [History of language education:] alissa.vogellanguages:catalan_sign_language_in_spain [2025/06/18 09:42] (current) – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
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 ====== Catalan Sign Language in Spain ====== ====== Catalan Sign Language in Spain ======
  
-==== Language designations: ====+==== Language designations ====
   * In the language itself: Llengua de signes catalana (LSC)   * In the language itself: Llengua de signes catalana (LSC)
   * [[general_information:glossary_of_terms#ISO 639-3|ISO 639-3]] standard: csc   * [[general_information:glossary_of_terms#ISO 639-3|ISO 639-3]] standard: csc
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 ==== Language vitality according to: ==== ==== Language vitality according to: ====
  
-^ [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/7178|Endangered Languages]] ^ [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cata1241| Glottolog]] ^ +^ [[https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/catalan-sign-language/|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/csc/|Ethnologue]]  ^ [[https://endangeredlanguages.com/lang/7178|Endangered Languages]] ^ [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cata1241| Glottolog]] ^ 
-|-| {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |Vulnerable}}  |  {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |Threatened}} | +|  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|endangered/unsafe}}  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|Endangered}}  |  {{:endangerment:blue.png?nolink|Vulnerable}}  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|Threatened}}  | 
-==== Linguistic aspects: =====+<sup> Click [[manual:colour_codes|here]] for a full overview of the language vitality colour codes. </sup> 
 +==== Linguistic aspects =====
   * Classification: Sign Language → French Sign Language family. For more information, see [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cata1241|Cata1241]] at [[http://glottolog.org/|Glottolog]]   * Classification: Sign Language → French Sign Language family. For more information, see [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cata1241|Cata1241]] at [[http://glottolog.org/|Glottolog]]
   * Script: No script   * Script: No script
  
-==== Language standardization ====+==== Language standardisation ====
 As Catalan Sign Language is not a spoken language, it does not have a standardised orthography. Although it does not have a standard variety yet((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)), the Government of Catalonia does provide a [[https://llengua.gencat.cat/ca/llengua_signes_catalana/recursos-i-activitats/vocabulari/|basic vocabulary corpus]] in cooperation with //FESOCA//, the Federation of Deaf People in Catalonia (Federació  As Catalan Sign Language is not a spoken language, it does not have a standardised orthography. Although it does not have a standard variety yet((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)), the Government of Catalonia does provide a [[https://llengua.gencat.cat/ca/llengua_signes_catalana/recursos-i-activitats/vocabulari/|basic vocabulary corpus]] in cooperation with //FESOCA//, the Federation of Deaf People in Catalonia (Federació 
 d'Associacions de Sords de Catalunya). d'Associacions de Sords de Catalunya).
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 ===== Demographics ===== ===== Demographics =====
  
-==== Language Area ====+==== Language area ====
  
 Catalan Sign Language is used in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain. The main variety is centred around Barcelona, where many influential schools, centres and clubs have been established((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)) ((Frigola, S. (2010). La comunidad sorda de Catalunya. In J. Martí i Castell & J. M. Mestres i Serra (Eds.), //Les llengües de signes com a llengües minoritàries: Perspectives lingüístiques, socials i polítiques: Actes del seminari del CUIMPB-CEL 2008// (pp. 29-54). Institut d’Estudis Catalans. <[[https://doi.org/10.2436/15.0100.01.25]]>)). There are four main dialectal areas: Eastern, Central, Coastal and Menorcan((Frigola, S. (2010). La comunidad sorda de Catalunya. In J. Martí i Castell & J. M. Mestres i Serra (Eds.), //Les llengües de signes com a llengües minoritàries: Perspectives lingüístiques, socials i polítiques: Actes del seminari del CUIMPB-CEL 2008// (pp. 29-54). Institut d’Estudis Catalans. <[[https://doi.org/10.2436/15.0100.01.25]]>)). The latter variety has emerged due to a a small number of signers of LSC on the Balearic island of Menorca, whereas on the neighboring islands of Mallorca and Ibiza (Eivissa), varieties of the Spanish Sign Language (LSE) are used((Quer, J. (2021). La llengua de signes catalana (LSC), llengua pròpia. //Llengua Nacional//, 114, 39-42. <[[https://raco.cat/index.php/LlenguaNacional/article/view/387107]]>)). Catalan Sign Language is used in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain. The main variety is centred around Barcelona, where many influential schools, centres and clubs have been established((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)) ((Frigola, S. (2010). La comunidad sorda de Catalunya. In J. Martí i Castell & J. M. Mestres i Serra (Eds.), //Les llengües de signes com a llengües minoritàries: Perspectives lingüístiques, socials i polítiques: Actes del seminari del CUIMPB-CEL 2008// (pp. 29-54). Institut d’Estudis Catalans. <[[https://doi.org/10.2436/15.0100.01.25]]>)). There are four main dialectal areas: Eastern, Central, Coastal and Menorcan((Frigola, S. (2010). La comunidad sorda de Catalunya. In J. Martí i Castell & J. M. Mestres i Serra (Eds.), //Les llengües de signes com a llengües minoritàries: Perspectives lingüístiques, socials i polítiques: Actes del seminari del CUIMPB-CEL 2008// (pp. 29-54). Institut d’Estudis Catalans. <[[https://doi.org/10.2436/15.0100.01.25]]>)). The latter variety has emerged due to a a small number of signers of LSC on the Balearic island of Menorca, whereas on the neighboring islands of Mallorca and Ibiza (Eivissa), varieties of the Spanish Sign Language (LSE) are used((Quer, J. (2021). La llengua de signes catalana (LSC), llengua pròpia. //Llengua Nacional//, 114, 39-42. <[[https://raco.cat/index.php/LlenguaNacional/article/view/387107]]>)).
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 ==== Speaker numbers ==== ==== Speaker numbers ====
-There is no official census for the number of LSC signers. //FESOCA// estimates that there are around 25.000 users of LSC in the Catalan territory((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)), of which around 12.000 are deaf signers((Quer, J., Mazzoni, L., & Sapountzaki, G. (2010). Transmission of sign languages in Mediterranean Europe. In D. Brentari (Ed.), //Sign Languages// (Cambridge Language Surveys, pp. 95-112). Cambridge University Press.)).+There is no official census for the number of LSC signers. //FESOCA// estimates that there are around 25,000 users of LSC in the Catalan territory((Altimira, B. G. (2015). //The Meaning of Space in Sign Language//: //Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse//. De Gruyter Mouton. <[[https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614518815]]>)), of which around 12,000 are deaf signers((Quer, J., Mazzoni, L., & Sapountzaki, G. (2010). Transmission of sign languages in Mediterranean Europe. In D. Brentari (Ed.), //Sign Languages// (Cambridge Language Surveys, pp. 95-112). Cambridge University Press.)).
  
  
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-===== Support structure for education of the language: =====+===== Support structure for education of the language =====
  
  
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