Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
Deaf sign language of Guinea-Bissau
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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.
NativetoGuinea-Bissau
| Guinea-Bissau Sign Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau |
incipient Deaf-community sign language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lgs |
| Glottolog | guin1260 |
It is not directly related to the Portuguese sign language, although it has borrowed the alphabet from it.[1]
