Portuguese Sign Language
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] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | psr |
Glottolog | port1277 [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]
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See also
References
- Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Portuguese Sign Language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74
- Lucas, Ceil (2001). The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780521794749. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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