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Orocovis Sign Language

Orocovis Sign Language (LSOR; Spanish: Lengua de Señas de Orocovis) is a village sign language native to Orocovis, Puerto Rico. Distinct from both the Puerto Rican dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) and Puerto Rican Sign Language (PRSL), LSOR is a language shared by both deaf and hearing members of the community (like Martha's Vineyard Sign Language). It is spoken by about 25 to 50 mostly Afro-Caribbean families in the inland town. Many in Orocivis are bilingual in PRSL and LSOR.

Orocovis Sign Language features several notable grammatical differences to its neighboring dominant languages.

Like other village sign languages, LSOR signers employ an extended signing space. As such, signers are not restricted to the space in front of themselves: Signers will use extended bodily locations as well as the space behind their body. In addition, there is an extensive use of absolute pointing, a phenomenon seen in many other sign languages, where the signing space location is "absolute" which then is used for a variety of grammatical processes.

As such, absolute pointing can reference an actual location:

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