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. and Sharma, D. (2003). Nepali Sign Language Dictionary. Kathmandu: Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. The International manual alphabet is used in Germany, Austria, Norway, and Finland.
  3. See "Preface" Acharya, K. and Sharma, D. (2003). Nepali Sign Language Dictionary. Kathmandu: Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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