Portuguese Sign Language

Portuguese Sign Language
Portuguese Sign Language
LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa
Native to	Portugal
Native speakers	60,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Swedish Sign Portuguese Sign Language;
Language codes
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 (inability to heard) in Portugal.

It is recognised in the present Constitution of Portugal.[2] It was influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a Swedish school for the Deaf that was built in Lisbon.[3]

References

Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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.

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[e18-1] Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[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.