Portuguese 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)e18 |
| Language family | Swedish Sign
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | psr |
It is recognised in the present Constitution of Portugal.[1] It was influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a Swedish school for the Deaf that was built in Lisbon.[2]
Portuguese Sign Language Media
Swedish Sign (right) and Portuguese Sign (left) alphabets compared
References
- ↑ Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74
- ↑ Lucas, Ceil. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages (in en) (2001). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780521794749. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
