Portuguese Sign Language

Portuguese Sign Language
LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa
Native toPortugal
Native speakers
60,000 (2014)[1]
Swedish Sign
  • Portuguese Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3psr
Glottologport1277
ELPPortuguese 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]

It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.[8]

  1. ^ Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74
  3. ^ Lucas, Ceil (2001). The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780521794749. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ^ Prawitz, J. "Pär Aron Borg - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  5. ^ "Cape Verde". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  6. ^ "República da Guiné-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  7. ^ "Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  8. ^ "Angola". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-14.