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Preferred term

Guinea-Bissau Sign Language  

Definition

  • Guinea-Bissau Sign Language is an incipient sign language evolving from the single school for the deaf in Guinea-Bissau, which was founded in Bissau in 2003. It is not directly related to the Portuguese sign language, although it has borrowed the alphabet from it.

Identifier

  • LGS

Notation

  • lgs

In other languages

  • Língua gestual guineense

    Portuguese

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LGS

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