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Meanings of manual alphabet in English
Russian
ручной алфавит Spanish
alfabeto manual Type of alphabet; have often been used in deaf education, and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a number of sign languages.
Synonyms
Examples for "finger alphabet"
Examples for "finger alphabet"
1
Gibbie took his place, and began to teach Ginevra the finger alphabet.
2
Did 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.
1
What good to her the hand alphabet or the reading of the lips if they should take from her some strange inner serenity of spirit?
Usage of manual alphabet in English
1
The manual alphabet is that in use among all educated deaf people.
2
Occasionally some little boy or girl will try to learn the manual alphabet.
3
Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet.
4
Mr. Gilman read all the papers to me by means of the manual alphabet.
5
Two of the teachers knew the manual alphabet, and talked to her without an interpreter.
6
Books supplemented, perhaps equaled in importance the manual alphabet, as a means of teaching language.
7
The manual alphabet was not the only means of presenting words to Helen Keller's fingers.
8
One who is entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness.
9
Miss Keller's reading of the manual alphabet by her sense of touch seems to cause some perplexity.
10
Miss Sullivan had taught the child the manual alphabet, and she had obtained much information by means of it.
11
This with slight modifications became the French manual alphabet which was introduced at Hartford by Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
12
She taught it to Laura, and from that time on the manual alphabet was the means of communicating with her.
13
One who reads or talks to me spells with his hand, using the single-hand manual alphabet generally employed by the deaf.
14
Just here, perhaps, I had better explain our use of the manual alphabet, which seems to puzzle people who do not know us.
15
I studied it with Madame Olivier, a French lady who did not know the manual alphabet, and who was obliged to give her instruction orally.
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Translations for manual alphabet
Spanish
Manual alphabet through the time
Manual alphabet across language varieties
United Kingdom
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