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New Evidence for Early Modern Ottoman Arabic and Turkish Sign Systems
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Richardson, Kristina – Sign Language Studies, 2017
The earliest descriptions of Latin finger alphabets were recorded in southern Europe between 1579 and 1589. New literary and visual evidence for sixteenth-century Ottoman Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sign systems are presented and analyzed in this article.
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Turkish, Alphabets, Sign Language
Variations in the Baghcheban Manual Alphabet in Iranian Sign Language
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Ghari, Zohreh – Sign Language Studies, 2017
In 1924 Jabbar Baghcheban created a manual system that employed the phonetic characteristics of spoken Persian and Perso-Arabic orthography for use in the education of deaf students (Ibrahimi 2007). This article is a first exploration of variation and change in this system as it has evolved into the Iranian manual alphabet. Data on the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Phonetics, Semitic Languages, Indo European Languages