Portuguese Sign Language | |
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LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa | |
Native to | Portugal |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2014) [1] |
Swedish Sign
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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]
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