Venezuelan Sign Language
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InVenezuelalive several thousands ofdeafwhose first language is a language
of signs, that is to say, a language that is "spoken" with the hands and expressions and
postures of the body and face. Such language has been called, for more than
a decade, Venezuelan sign language (LSV). LSV has a grammar and a
own vocabulary, which differentiates them from the sign languages of other countries.
ORIGIN
The first known mentions of a community of people with
users of a sign language in Venezuela date back to the hearing impairment.
1930s, after the founding of the first school that welcomed children with
hearing deficiencies inCaracas,the capital of the country. That school, theInstitute
Venezuelan Association of the Blind and Deaf-Mute (IVCyS), founded in 1935, allowed the formation
from a small community of signers, who created homemade signs brought by
each one was configuring a common code. Later, the administration of
IVCyS decided to separate deaf children from blind children and was founded, for the former,
theSchool Workshop for the Deaf-Mutes. In this, trained listening teachers were employed
Spain, which they knew thelanguageof the people with hearing disabilities in that country.
The contact between the code developed by the children up to that point and theLSEspoken
for teachers seems to be the origin of what is today the LSV. Later, in 1950,
several members of the first generation of students from those institutions founded
theAssociation of Deaf-Mutes of Caracas,under the direction ofJosé Arquero Urbanoa
immigrant who had been a leader of the deaf people of Madrid. The influence of the signs.
brought by Urban Archer, transformed the LSV again, according to old witnesses.
from that time. Because of this account, many deaf Venezuelans today assume that this
Deaf Spanish was the creator of LSV (which differs significantly from the language)
used by the deaf in Spain.
GRAMMAR
They have a grammatical and syntactic structure distinct from that of spoken languages.
Linguistic research on the sign language of deaf communities
they have demonstrated and demonstrate that they are completely expressive languages, with rules
complex grammatical structures and an increasing vocabulary, which are vehicles
appropriate for daily conversation, intellectual discourse, rhetoric, wit and
poetry.
Grammatical Principle: Time-Subject.
Time is marked according to the discourse.
Simple sentence: starting; There is none
‘tiempo’: está en presente.
Gender: I point out the feminine.
Verb: I do not use TO BE, TO BE, TO HAVE.
The articles do not exist.
Connectives are not important
IMPORTANCE
It is important for hearing people to know and learn the language of
signs because it allows them:
Change of attitude, based on a greater and better knowledge of people
deaf, as human beings with abilities and not as people with limitations.
Greater social and communicative interaction between the deaf person and their hearing family.
Breaking the communication barriers between the deaf person and the hearing person that
they create distance
