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  2. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    10. The manual alphabet can be used on either hand, normally the signer's dominant hand – that is, the right hand for right-handers, the left hand for left-handers. [1] Most frequently, the manual alphabet is signed just below the dominant shoulder of the signer. When used within other signs or in a context in which this is not plausible ...

  3. American Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language possesses a set of 26 signs known as the American manual alphabet, which can be used to spell out words from the English language. It is rather a representation of the English alphabet, and not a unique alphabet of ASL, although commonly labeled as the "ASL alphabet". [55]

  4. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    The simplest visual form of fingerspelling is tracing the shape of letters in the air and the simplest tactual form is tracing them on the hand. Fingerspelling can be one-handed such as in American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, or it can be two-handed such as in British Sign Language .

  5. History of sign language - Wikipedia

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    The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references to forms of communication using hand gestures date back as far as 5th century BC Greece. Sign language is composed of a system of conventional gestures, mimic, hand signs and finger spelling ...

  6. Sign language - Wikipedia

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    Preservation of the Sign Language, George W. Veditz (1913) Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign languages are full-fledged natural ...

  7. List of sign languages - Wikipedia

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    Irish, British, & local. Ethiopian sign languages. 1 million signers of an unknown number of languages. Francophone African Sign Language. ASL & spoken French. The development of ASL in Francophone West Africa. Gambian Sign Language. ASL. Ghanaian Sign Language.

  8. SignWriting - Wikipedia

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    Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages.It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arrangement on the page, which does not follow a sequential order like the letters that make up written English words.

  9. ASL-phabet - Wikipedia

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    Parent systems. Stokoe notation. ASL-phabet. ASL-phabet, or the ASL Alphabet, is a writing system developed by Samuel Supalla for American Sign Language (ASL). It is based on a system called SignFont, [1] [2] which Supalla modified and streamlined for use in an educational setting with Deaf children. [3]

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