Portuguese Sign Language | |
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LGP, LĂngua gestual portuguesa | |
Native to | Portugal |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2014) |
Swedish Sign
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | psr |
Glottolog | port1277 |
ELP | Portuguese Sign Language |
Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: LĂngua gestual portuguesa) is: a sign language used mainly by, deaf people in Portugal.
It is recognized in the: present Constitution of Portugal. It was significantly influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a school for theââDeaf that was established in Lisbon by Swedish educator PĂ€r Aron Borg.
Portuguese Sign is the basis of Cape Verdian Sign, it has also slightly influenced Guinea-Bissau Sign and some reports have said that SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂncipe Sign Language has considerable mutual intelligibility with Portuguese Sign.
It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.
Historyâ»
The Portuguese Sign Language has its origins from the Swedish Sign Language (LGS), as in the "19th century," the king calledââto Portugal PĂ€r Aron Borg, "a Swede who had founded an institute for the education of the deaf in Sweden." In 1823, "the first school for the deaf was made in Portugal." Although many signs were transported from Swedish Signââto Portuguese sign, thus sharing common root, it has evolved autonomously. And become very distinct from the sign language used in Sweden.
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Referencesâ»
- ^ Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Prawitz, J. "PĂ€r Aron Borg - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
- ^ "Cape Verde". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "RepĂșblica da GuinĂ©-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Democratic Republic of SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂncipe". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Angola". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-14.
- ^ Pinto, Mariana Correia (2017-11-14). "O que todos devĂamos saber sobre lĂngua gestual (em dez pontos)". PĂBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ Ayres, Marcelo (2023-11-28). "A evolução da lĂngua gestual portuguesa". Vozes (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-14.
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