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Nepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language (Nepali: नेपाली साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Nēpālī Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is the main sign language of Nepal. It is a partially standardized language based informally on the variety used in Kathmandu , with some input from varieties from Pokhara and elsewhere.
The Nepali manual alphabet is fingerspelling devised for the Nepali alphabet-syllabary, Devanagari, to go with Nepalese Sign Language. [1] It was developed by the Kathmandu Association of the Deaf (KAD), with support from UNICEF .
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Sign languages of Nepal" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Nepali Sign Language
There are irregularities, however. फ़ f and ज़ z, which are found in both Persian and English loans, are transcribed with English Braille (and international) ⠋ and ⠵, as shown in the chart in the previous section, while the internal allophonic developments of ड़ ṛ and ढ़ ṛh are respectively an independent letter ⠻ in braille and a derivation from that letter rather ...
The National Deaf Federation Nepal (NDFN; Nepali: राष्ट्रिय बहिरा महासंघ नेपाल (ne)) is a non-governmental organization established and run as the umbrella organization for Nepal's various district and local deaf associations. Previously it was known as the National Federation of the Deaf and ...
Signed Nepali or Sign-Supported Nepali, is a means of communication often used by (nominally) signing hearing individuals in their interactions with signing deaf, or by deaf persons who for whatever reason acquired Nepali as their mother tongue and then acquired Nepali Sign Language subsequently, or by deaf persons with people with normal hearing whose signing is judged not to be fully fluent ...
KAD was also instrumental in early efforts to promote and further develop sign language. KAD aided work by Peace Corps to produce the first ever dictionary of Nepali Sign Language, [3] and, with the support of UNICEF, was also instrumental in the development of a one-handed fingerspelling system for devanagari. [citation needed]