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 |
| 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]
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See also
References
- Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 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.
- Prawitz, J. "Pär Aron Borg - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
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