The Ukrainian Manual Alphabet is used for
fingerspelling
Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letter (alphabet), 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 ...
in
Ukrainian Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language (USL) () is the sign language of the deaf community of Ukraine. Ukrainian Sign Language belongs to the family of French sign languages. Worldwide awareness of Ukrainian Sign Language rose sharply in 2014 after the relea ...
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The modern Ukrainian dactylic alphabet has 33 dactylic characters, which is the same number as the letters in the Ukrainian alphabet.
[Кульбіда С. В. Українська дактилологія: науково-методичний посібник. — с. 115]
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Ukrainian Manual Alphabet photos
Manual alphabet
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