Valencian Sign language

Valencian Sign Language
Llengua de signes valenciana
Signed in	Spain
Region	Valencian Community.
Native signers	(unknown)  (date missing)
Language family	Catalan Sign Language Valencian Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vsv

Valencian Sign Language (Valencian: Llengua de signes valenciana, LSV; IPA: [ˈʎeŋɡwa ðe ˈsiŋnez valensiˈana]) is a sign language used by deaf people in the Valencian Community, Spain. Some linguists consider LSV, Spanish Sign Language (LSE) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) as variants related to a language group, while others believe it is a dialect of the latter. The vocabulary of LSV is 72% similar to that of LSE, so some linguists maintain that the former is unique enough to have its own grammar, as is the case with Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Organisations like FESORD, which work with the hearing-impaired in Valencia have not yet expressed their views on this matter but they do refer to LSV as Llengua de Signes en la Comunitat Valenciana (Sign Language of the Community of Valencia). Valencia (which is the first Spanish autonomous community to support the use of sign language in the Statute of Autonomy), does not mention specifically which sign language is to be used officially. The use of LSV in Valencia has, however, diminished and is restricted to administrative communications and occasional usage in the media.

Learning LSV

• "¡A Signar!", Interactive CD-ROM [1]. FESORD. València 1999. ISBN 84-605-9699-0.

References

• "Sígname": para aprender Lengua de Signos en la Comunidad Valenciana., FESORD. Basic, medium and high levels. Valencia 2000. Several authors. ISBN 84-931447-2-X .
• "Spanish Sign Languages Survey", Steven Parkhurst and Dianne Parkhurst. SIL International, 2006. Before published in Spanish in 2001 as Un estudio lingüístico: Variación de las lenguas de signos en España, in the Revista Española de Lingüística de Lengua de Signos (RELLS), as a study from the Promotora Española de Lingüística (PROEL).
• "Lexical Comparisons of Signed Languages and the Effects of Iconicity," Steven Parkhurst. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, vol. 47 (2003). SIL International.
• "Signolingüística", FESORD. Valencia 1999. Several authors. ISBN 84-931447-8-9 .

External links

• FESORD CV (Federació de Persones Sordes de la Comunitat Valenciana)
• Information about sign languages on Spain, from Promotora Española de Lingüística (PROEL).