: an alphabet especially for the deaf in which the letters are represented by finger positions
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Examples of manual alphabet in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebÉpée adapted these signs and added his own manual alphabet, creating a signing dictionary.—National Geographic, 28 May 2019
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