Portuguese Sign Language

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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 (

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]

Swedish Sign Language family tree
Swedish Sign Language
(c. 1800–present)
Portuguese Sign Language
(c. 1820–present)
Finnish Sign Language
(c. 1850–present)
Finland-Swedish Sign Language
(c. 1850–present)
Eritrean Sign Language
(c. 1950–present)


See also

References

  1. ^ Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74
  3. . Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. ^ Prawitz, J. "Pär Aron Borg - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-16.

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