Portuguese Sign Language
língua gestual portuguesa
Portuguese Sign Language is a sign language spoken in Portugal. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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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. 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.
Portuguese Sign is the basis of Cape Verdian Sign, and it has also slightly influenced Guinea-Bissau Sign. Some reports have said that São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language has considerable mutual intelligibility with Portuguese Sign. It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.
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