• sign language. Two-handed alphabets are less widespread than one-handed manual alphabets. They may be used to represent the Latin alphabet (for example...
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    sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf education...
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  • The American Manual Alphabet (AMA) is a manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language. The letters and digits are signed as follows...
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    Russian Manual Alphabet (RMA) is used for fingerspelling in Russian Sign Language. Like many other manual alphabets, the Russian Manual Alphabet bears similarities...
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  • The Yugoslav manual alphabet is two-handed manual alphabet that is used to spell in Yugoslav Sign Language. Some signs are modeled after letters of Serbian...
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  • requires two hands to wield, such as a Two-handed sword Two-handed bowling Two-handed manual alphabet, alphabetic writing system Two-handed throwing,...
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    phonetic American manual alphabet – Manual alphabet that augments the vocabulary of American Sign Language Two-handed manual alphabets – Part of a deaf...
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  • The Korean manual alphabet is used by the Deaf in South Korea who speak Korean Sign Language. It is a one-handed alphabet that mimics the shapes of the...
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    some Spanish language manual alphabets for CH (extending the thumb of the U hand) Ĝ by switching the extended finger of the G hand from the index finger...
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    French manual alphabet is an alphabet used for French Sign Language (LSF), both to distinguish LSF words and to sign French words in LSF. The alphabet has...
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    Manual Alphabet (or a magyar ujjábécé in Hungarian) is used for fingerspelling in Hungarian Sign Language. The most common is the one-handed alphabet...
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    The Polish manual alphabet is a single-handed manual alphabet used in Polish Sign Language. v t e v t e...
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  • A two-handed manual alphabet, identical to the one used in British Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language, is integral to Auslan. This alphabet is...
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  • Helen Keller. Different manual alphabets may be used, such as the one-handed ASL alphabet or the two-handed manual alphabets used, for example, in Britain...
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    Chilean manual alphabet is used by the Chilean deaf community to sign Spanish words and is incorporated into Chilean Sign Language. It is a one-handed alphabet...
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  • languages used in the region. TİD uses a two-handed manual alphabet which is very different from the two-handed alphabets used in the BANZSL sign languages....
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    The Irish manual alphabet is the manual alphabet used in Irish Sign Language. Compared with other manual alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, it has unusual...
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  • written alphabet (both the British two-handed and the French/American one-handed alphabets retain the forms of the Latin alphabet, as the Indian manual alphabet...
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  • alphabet. The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits. Although spelling alphabets are...
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  • by the government. The Catalan manual alphabet is single-handed and is extremely similar to the Spanish manual alphabet. As a result, people who use Spanish...
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    two-handed manual alphabet as BSL (British Sign Language) and Auslan (Australian Sign Language). It uses more lip-patterns in conjunction with hand and...
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    The Spanish manual alphabet is a fingerspelling system used in Spain. Different varieties are used in Madrid and Barcelona. Carmel, Simon J. (1982). International...
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    The Ukrainian Manual Alphabet is used for fingerspelling in Ukrainian Sign Language. Ukrainian Manual Alphabet (UMA), post 2003. Differs from Soviet type...
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    Shaka sign (redirect from Call me hand)
    of the hand; the wrist may be rotated back and forth for emphasis. The shaka sign is similar to the letter Y in the American manual alphabet in American...
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    Michael Everson's Alphabets of Europe Evolution of alphabets, animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland How the Alphabet Was Born from...
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    Portuguese manual alphabet is the manual alphabet used in Portuguese Sign Language. Compared to other manual alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, it has...
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    alphabet used by the Euboean Greeks in their first colonies in Italy, the island of Pithekoussai and the city of Cumae in Campania. In the alphabets of...
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  • The Nepali manual alphabet is fingerspelling devised for the Nepali alphabet-syllabary, Devanagari, to go with Nepalese Sign Language. It was developed...
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  • these Balkan states. A two-handed manual alphabet is in widespread use; a one-handed alphabet based on the American manual alphabet, though less commonly...
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    BANZSL two-handed manual alphabet is no longer used in the Maritimes: 8, 9, 75, 142  and has been replaced by the one-handed American manual alphabet, lexicalized...
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