Extensive List of Languages of Puerto Rico: Spoken and Extinct Languages
In this Country Profile
:: List of Languages ::
English [eng] 82,000 in Puerto Rico (1995). Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
Puerto Rican Sign Language [psl] Ethnic population: 8,000 to 40,000 deaf persons (1986 Gallaudet Univ.). Alternate names: PRSL. Dialects: Related to American Sign Language. Classification: Deaf sign language
Spanish [spa] 3,437,120 in Puerto Rico (1996). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/
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