Portuguese Sign Language

Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal.

Portuguese Sign Language
LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa
Native toPortugal
Native speakers
60,000 (2014)[1]
Swedish Sign
  • Portuguese Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3psr
Glottologport1277
ELPPortuguese Sign Language[2]

It is recognized in the present Constitution of Portugal.[3] It was significantly influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a Swedish school for the Deaf that was established in Lisbon.[4]

Swedish Sign Language family tree
Old British Sign Language?
(c. 1760–1900)
Swedish Sign Language
(c. 1800–present)
Portuguese Sign Language
(c. 1820–present)
Finnish Sign Language
(c. 1850–present)
Finland-Swedish Sign Language
(c. 1850–present)
Eritrean Sign Language
(c. 1950–present)

See also

References

  1. Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Portuguese Sign Language.
  3. Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74
  4. Lucas, Ceil (2001). The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780521794749. Retrieved 26 November 2017.


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