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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