An alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions.
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Examples for "manual alphabet"
Examples for "manual alphabet"
1The manual alphabet is that in use among all educated deaf people.
2Occasionally some little boy or girl will try to learn the manual alphabet.
3Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet.
4Mr. Gilman read all the papers to me by means of the manual alphabet.
5Two of the teachers knew the manual alphabet, and talked to her without an interpreter.
1Gibbie took his place, and began to teach Ginevra the finger alphabet.
2Did he by any chance suppose that I had learnt the finger alphabet?
3"Even if you knew the finger alphabet," he said, "it would be of no use.