Portuguese Sign Language
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Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal.
Portuguese Sign Language | |
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LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa | |
Native to | Portugal |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2014)[1] |
Swedish Sign
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | psr |
Glottolog | port1277 |
ELP | Portuguese Sign Language |
It is recognized in the present Constitution of Portugal.[2] It was significantly influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a school for the Deaf that was established in Lisbon by Swedish educator Pär Aron Borg.[3][4]
Portuguese Sign is the basis of Cape Verdian Sign,[5] it has also slightly influenced Guinea-Bissau Sign[6] and some reports have said that São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language has considerable mutual intelligibility with Portuguese Sign.[7]
It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.[8]