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Venezuelan Sign Language

Venezuelan Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Venezuela.

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Sign languages are full natural languages with their own grammar, unrelated to the spoken languages around them.

Venezuelan Sign Language (VSL; Spanish: Lengua de señas venezolana, LSV) is the national deaf sign language of Venezuela. The term, "Venezuelan Sign Language," began to be used in the 1930s. It is widely used, and Venezuela has a national bilingual education program for VSL and Spanish, though the language used by adults differs from that of the classroom. There is a large VSL dictionary published by the Federación Venezolana de Sordos. VSL has been used in schools since 1937.

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