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| Guinea-Bissau Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau |
incipientDeaf-community sign language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lgs |
| Glottolog | guin1260 |
Guinea-Bissau Sign Language (Portuguese:Língua gestual guineense orLíngua de sinais guineense) is an incipientsign language evolving from the single school for the deaf in Guinea-Bissau, which was founded inBissau in 2003. In 2005 a linguist andPortuguese Sign Language teacher found GBSL to still be basic, but with some consistency among students in the school and village use when the students went home.
It is not directly related to the Portuguese sign language, although it has borrowed the alphabet from it.[1]
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