Portuguese Sign Language
sign language
Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people (inability to heard) in Portugal.
| Portuguese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa | |
| Native to | Portugal |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2014)[1] |
Swedish Sign
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | psr |
| Glottolog | port1277 |
| ELP | Portuguese Sign Language |
It is recognised in the present Constitution of Portugal.[2] It was influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a Swedish school for the Deaf that was built in Lisbon.[3]
References change
- ↑ Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ 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.
