São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language (LGSTP) is an emerging village sign language of the island state of

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

, and around 500 signs have been recorded so far. There exist no interpreters, no official training or media for LGSTP. Some reports have said that LGSTP is similar to Portuguese Sign and that much of it is mutually intelligible with Portuguese Sign.

References

*Ana Mineiro, Patrícia do Carmo, Cristina Caroça, Mara Moita, Sara Carvalho, João Paço & Ahmed Zaky (2017) Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language. ''Sign Language & Linguistics'' 20, 109–128. Village sign languages Languages of São Tomé and Príncipe Language isolates of Africa {{Sign-lang-stub