Catalan Sign Language

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Catalan Sign Language CSE, lengua de signos o señas catalana in Spanish, llengua de signes catalana in Catalan
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Signed in:	Spain
Region:	Catalonia
Total signers:	~20,000, maybe 32,000 (7,000 deafs)
Language family:	Sign language
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`none`
ISO 639-3:	`csc`
sign language — list of sign languages — legal recognition

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.