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Catalan Sign Language (Catalan: Llengua de signes catalana LSC; IPA: [ˈʎeŋɡwə ðə ˈsiŋnəs kətəˈɫanə]) is a sign language used by 18000 signers 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.