• Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal. It is recognized in the present...
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    The languages of Portugal are Portuguese, Mirandese, Portuguese Sign Language, Leonese(extinct(?)) and Caló. With the inclusion of other linguistic entities...
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    Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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  • Brazilian Sign Language (Portuguese: Língua Brasileira de Sinais [ˈlĩɡwɐ bɾaziˈlejɾɐ dʒi siˈnajs]) is the sign language used by deaf communities of Brazil...
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    majority of Portugal’s former colonial holdings in the Americas. Aside from Portuguese, the country has also numerous minority languages, including indigenous...
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  • perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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    Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian...
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  • Swedish Sign Language family is a language family of sign languages, including Swedish Sign Language, Portuguese Sign Language, and Finnish Sign Language. Swedish...
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  • this self-created language went on to influence Finnish Sign Language and Portuguese Sign Language. 1809 marks the year of the first deaf school, Manillaskolan...
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    the Portuguese language. In 1996, together with Portugal and Brazil, the Portuguese-speaking African countries established the Community of Portuguese Language...
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    "peso" and "dollar". The explicitly double-barred sign is called cifrão in the Portuguese language. The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols...
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    Wittmann (1991), Swedish Sign Language also descends from BSL. From Swedish SL arose Portuguese Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language, the latter with local...
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  • Romance languages, the numero sign is understood as an abbreviation of the word for "number", e.g. Italian numero, French numéro, and Portuguese and Spanish...
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  • Mozambican Sign Language (Portuguese: Língua de Sinais Moçambicana) is the principal language of the deaf community of Mozambique. It is reported to have...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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  • Finnish Sign Language (Finnish: suomalainen viittomakieli) is the sign language most commonly used in Finland. There are 3,000 (2012 estimate) Finnish...
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    Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡe(j)z bɾaziˈle(j)ɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil...
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    Bantu languages are indigenous to Mozambique. Portuguese, inherited from the colonial period (see: Portuguese Mozambique), is the official language, and...
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  • (official recognition) British Sign Language Spanish Llanito Portugal: Portuguese (official recognition) Portuguese Sign Language (official recognition) Mirandese...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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    Janeiro), awarding it an official right-of-use. Portuguese Sign Language is also recognized. Portuguese Constitution adopted in 1976 with several subsequent...
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    Observer in the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries). Education for the deaf in Senegal uses American Sign Language, introduced by the deaf American...
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    encounters with the Portuguese. Even today, the Portuguese language is a sign of prestige and social status: one who speaks Portuguese is considered an elite...
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    thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...
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    became a major language in Newark, New Jersey. Many Portuguese Americans may include descendants of Portuguese settlers born in Portuguese Africa (known...
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  • Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FinSSL) is a moribund sign language in Finland. It is now used only in private settings by older adults who attended the...
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    Portuguese creoles (Portuguese: crioulo) are creole languages which have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken creoles influenced...
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  • address sign. The absence of a single English word for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase or Spanish and Portuguese arroba...
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  • the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese) "Egyptian Sign Language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 February 2021. "American Sign Language". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4...
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  • form of sign language used in Portugal is Portuguese Sign Language (Portuguese: Língua Gestual Portuguesa, LGP). In Portugal, the cities Lisbon and Porto...
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