Portuguese Sign Language
| Portuguese Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa | |
| Native to | Portugal |
Native speakers | 60,000 (2014)[1] |
Swedish Sign
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| 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 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]
Portuguese Sign is the basis of Cape Verdian Sign,[5] it has also slightly influenced Guinea-Bissau Sign[6] and some reports have said that São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language has considerable mutual intelligibility with Portuguese Sign.[7]
It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.[8]
History
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The Portuguese Sign Language has its origins from the Swedish Sign Language (LGS), as in the 19th century, the king called to Portugal Pär 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.[9] Although many signs were transported from Swedish Sign to Portuguese sign, thus sharing a common root, it has evolved autonomously and become very distinct from the sign language used in Sweden.[10]
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See also
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References
[edit]- ^ 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. "Pär 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.
- ^ "República da Guiné-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau)". African Sign Languages Resource Center. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ "Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe". 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 devíamos saber sobre língua gestual (em dez pontos)". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-13.
- ^ Ayres, Marcelo (2023-11-28). "A evolução da língua gestual portuguesa". Vozes (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-05-14.
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