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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 .
Hemraj Shakyavamsha published an alphabet book of 15 types of Nepalese alphabets including Ranjana, Bhujimol and Pachumol. [23] In 1952, a pressman Pushpa Ratna Sagar of Kathmandu had moveable type of Nepal script made in India. The metal type was used to print the dateline and the titles of the articles in Thaunkanhe monthly. [24]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Manual alphabet" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Nepali manual alphabet; P.
Alphabet of the Nepalese Scriptbook. Patan, Nepal. ISBN 99933-34-36-7. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Covers Prachalit, Ranjana and Bhujimol, development, current use, information about and drawings of character formation. Hall, Pat (21 September 2012). "Problems with Unicode for Languages Unsupported by Computers" (PDF).
Although the idea behind this alphabet may have been motivated by foreign fingerspelling alphabets (especially American manual alphabet and the International manual alphabet), in fact only a few of the forms of the letters can be said to derive directly from those foreign alphabets (i.e. अ from “a”, ब from “b”, म from “m”, and ...
Similar braille conventions are used for three languages of India and Nepal that in print are written in Devanagari script: Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. These are part of a family of related braille alphabets known as Bharati Braille. There are apparently some differences between the Nepali braille alphabet of India and that of Nepal.
Nepali is the national language of Nepal. Besides being spoken as a mother tongue by more than 48% of the population of Nepal, it is also spoken in Bhutan and India. The language is recognized in the Nepali constitution as an official language of Nepal. The variety presented here is standard Nepali as spoken in Nepal.
Charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Nepali pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. See Nepali phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of ...