Portuguese Sign Language

{{Short description|Sign language}}

{{Infobox language

|name= Portuguese Sign Language

|nativename=LGP, Língua gestual portuguesa

|states=Portugal

|speakers=60,000

|date=2014

|ref=e18

|familycolor = Sign

|fam1 = Swedish Sign

|iso3=psr

|glotto=port1277

|glottorefname=Portuguese Sign Language

}}

Portuguese Sign language ({{Langx|pt|Língua gestual portuguesa}}) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal.

It is recognized in the present Constitution of Portugal.Constitution of Portugal, Article 71 and 74 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.{{cite book|author-link1=Ceil Lucas|last1=Lucas|first1=Ceil|title=The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521794749|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxpuT_s8AkEC&pg=PA29|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Prawitz |first=J. |title=Pär Aron Borg - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=17981 |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |language=sv}}

Portuguese Sign is the basis of Cape Verdian Sign,{{Cite web |title=Cape Verde |url=https://africansignlanguagesresourcecenter.com/cape-verde/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=African Sign Languages Resource Center |language=en-US}} and it has also slightly influenced Guinea-Bissau Sign.{{Cite web |title=República da Guiné-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau) |url=https://africansignlanguagesresourcecenter.com/guine-bissau/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=African Sign Languages Resource Center |language=en-US}} Some reports have said that São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language has considerable mutual intelligibility with Portuguese Sign.{{Cite web |title=Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe |url=https://africansignlanguagesresourcecenter.com/sao-tome-and-principe/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=African Sign Languages Resource Center |language=en-US}} It is also reported that Portuguese Sign has been also used in Angola.{{Cite web |title=Angola |url=https://africansignlanguagesresourcecenter.com/angola/ |access-date=2024-05-14 |website=African Sign Languages Resource Center |language=en-US}}