Back Yezh ar Sinoù Portugalek Breton Lèngva di sègn purtughéśa EML Lengua de señas portuguesa Spanish زبان اشاره پرتغالی Persian Portugalilainen viittomakieli Finnish Langue des signes portugaise French Lenghe dai segns portughêse FUR Bahasa Isyarat Portugis ID Lingua gesticulatoria Portugallica Latin Lenga dij segn portoghèisa PMS
| Portuguese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal.
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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Cape Verde". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "República da Guiné-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.