The Irish manual alphabet is the
manual alphabet
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf ...
used in
Irish Sign Language
Irish Sign Language (ISL, ga, Teanga Chomharthaíochta na hÉireann) is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in the Republic of Ireland. It is also used in Northern Ireland, alongside British Sign Language (BSL). Irish Sign Language is ...
. Compared with other manual alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, it has unusual forms for the letters G, K, L, P, and Q.
image:ISL a.jpg, A
image:ISL b.jpg, B
image:ISL c.jpg, C
image:ISL d.jpg, D
image:ISL e.jpg, E
image:ISL f.jpg, F
image:ISL g.jpg, G
image:ISL h.jpg, H
image:ISL i.jpg, I
image:ISL j.jpg, J
image:ISL k.jpg, K
image:ISL l.jpg, L
image:ISL m.jpg, M
image:ISL n.jpg, N
image:ISL o.jpg, O
image:ISL p.jpg, P
image:ISL q.jpg, Q
image:ISL r.jpg, R
image:ISL s.jpg, S
image:ISL t.jpg, T
image:ISL u.jpg, U
image:ISL v.jpg, V
image:ISL w.jpg, W
image:ISL x.jpg, X
image:ISL y.jpg, Y
image:ISL z.jpg, Z
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Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets) have often been used in deaf ...
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Manual alphabet
Latin-script representations