2017. Puerto Rican Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Sierra Leonean Sign Language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Selangor Sign Language at Ethnologue...

Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as Boricuas, and also referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are the people...

Hawaiʻi Sign Language or Hawaiian Sign Language (HSL; Hawaiian: Hoailona ʻŌlelo o Hawaiʻi), also known as Hoailona ʻŌlelo, Old Hawaiʻi Sign Language and Hawaiʻi...

The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Spanish: Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that...

are American Sign Language and its local variant, Puerto Rican Sign Language. The Spanish of Puerto Rico has evolved into having many idiosyncrasies in...

Philippine Sign Language (1806?) (frequently attributed to American Sign Language) American Sign Language (1817, with possible local admixture) Puerto Rican Sign...

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...

Meléndez, educator, poet, writer. First woman to belong to the Puerto Rican Academy of Languages. Georgina Lázaro, poet. Giannina Braschi, poet, novelist,...

Puerto Ricans have both immigrated and migrated to New York City. The first group of Puerto Ricans immigrated to New York City in the mid-19th century...

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...

number. Puerto Rican Spanish is the main language and dialect of the people of Puerto Rico, as well as many people descended from Puerto Ricans elsewhere...

first official language of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, English is the second official language. English is taught in all Puerto Rican schools and is...

result of various political activities within both the United States and Puerto Rican governments. The United Nations removed it from the list of non-self-governing...

provided that Puerto Rican women who had been denationalized because of marriage prior to March 2, 1917, the date upon which Puerto Ricans were extended...

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...

Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau. The Crow...

The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata), also known as the Puerto Rican parrot (Puerto Rican Spanish: cotorra puertorriqueña) or iguaca, is the only...

Puerto Rican migration to Hawaii began when Puerto Rico's sugar industry was devastated by two hurricanes in 1899. The devastation caused a worldwide shortage...

of independence of Puerto Rico occurred on September 23, 1868 in an event known as El Grito de Lares, where the first Puerto Rican flag was raised and...

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century...

Tío, Puerto Rican poet, pro-independence leader, and committee member, who spent her later life exiled in liberated Cuba. Members of the Puerto Rican revolutionary...

syllabics. Inuit Sign Language (IUR, Inuktitut: Inuit Uukturausingit ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐆᒃᑐᕋᐅᓯᖏᑦ) is one of the Inuit languages and the indigenous sign language of the Inuit...

competitions, it is governed by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation (Spanish: Federación de Baloncesto de Puerto Rico), The team represents both FIBA...

Morro fortress in Puerto Rico. Some brought their wives, while others married Puerto Rican women, and today there are many Puerto Rican families with Portuguese...

people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The...

that he would only support Puerto Rican statehood if the population of the island began to use English as its main language. The Taking of Congress (Spanish:...

This is where the alternative name for Puerto Rico, Borinquen, comes from. Since the late 18th century Puerto Ricans have called themselves some variation...

The recorded history of Puerto Rican women can trace its roots back to the era of the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean, who inhabited the...

the island's rich history and help create an identity that is uniquely Puerto Rican - Taíno (Native American), Spanish, African, and North American. A subgroup...

Puerto Ricans and people of Puerto Rican descent have participated as members of the United States Armed Forces in the American Civil War and in every...