Guinea-Bissau Sign Language

Deaf sign language of Guinea-Bissau From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guinea-Bissau Sign Language (Portuguese: Língua gestual guineense or Língua de sinais guineense) is an incipient sign language evolving from the single school for the deaf in Guinea-Bissau, which was founded in Bissau in 2003. In 2005 a linguist and Portuguese 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.

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Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
Native toGuinea-Bissau
Language codes
ISO 639-3lgs
Glottologguin1260
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It is not directly related to the Portuguese sign language, although it has borrowed the alphabet from it.[1]

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