What is Portuguese 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 Language family|Swedish Sign]] | iso3 = psr | glotto = port1277 | glottorefname = Portuguese Sign Language }} '''Portuguese Sign language''' ({{Lang-pt|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.<ref>[[Constitution of Portugal]], Article 71 and 74</ref> It was influenced by Swedish Sign Language, through a Swedish school for the Deaf that was built in Lisbon.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxpuT_s8AkEC&dq=Portuguese+Sign+Language&pg=PA29|title=The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages|last1=Lucas|first1=Ceil|date=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521794749|location=Cambridge|page=29|language=en|author-link1=Ceil Lucas|access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Sign languages]] [[Category:Languages of Europe]] [[Category:Portugal]] {{europe-stub}}