Nepali manual alphabet

The Nepali manual alphabet is fingerspelling devised for the Nepali alphabet-syllabary, Devanagari, to go with Nepalese Sign Language.[1] It was developed by the Kathmandu Association of the Deaf (KAD), with support from UNICEF. Based loosely on the formulations in the American manual alphabet and International manual alphabet,[2] only the forms for the letters अ (from “a”), ब (from “b”), म (from “m”), and र (from “r”) can be said to derive directly from their Latin alphabet equivalent. All other letter finger-shapes are indigenous.

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References

  1. ^ See "Preface" Acharya, K.; Sharma, D. (2003). Nepali Sign Language Dictionary. Kathmandu: Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers.
  2. ^ The International manual alphabet is used in Germany, Austria, Norway, and Finland.
  3. ^ See "Preface" Acharya, K.; Sharma, D. (2003). Nepali Sign Language Dictionary. Kathmandu: Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers.
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