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  2. Deafness in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The Society of the Deaf and Sign Language Users (SDSL) was founded in 2008 with the mission of advocating for sign language users in Bangladesh. [17] The SDSL aims for Bangla Sign Language users to receive the same access to information and resources as hearing people, and for all Deaf children to receive education in sign language.

  3. Bengali phonology - Wikipedia

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    Bengali words are virtually all trochaic; the primary stress falls on the initial syllable of the word, while secondary stress often falls on all odd-numbered syllables thereafter, giving strings such as সহযোগিতা sahayogitā [ˈʃɔhoˌdʒoɡiˌta] ('cooperation'). The first syllable carries the greatest stress, with the third ...

  4. Cued speech - Wikipedia

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    Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.

  5. Help:IPA/Bengali - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Bengali on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Bengali in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  6. Two-handed manual alphabets - Wikipedia

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    The receiver's hand is relaxed, with the palm open and fingers slightly apart. The signer uses their dominant hand like a pen to sign on the non-dominant hand of the receiver. As a beginner, you may squeeze the wrist of the receiver between words since you will spell haltingly. Once you can spell fluently, simply put a short pause between words.

  7. Stokoe notation - Wikipedia

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    Stokoe notation (/ ˈ s t oʊ k i / STOH-kee) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages.It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.

  8. This Family Drives 350 Miles For What Could Be A Common ...

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    The temperature drops from 6 degrees to 3 to 1. A road sign reads “Pass With Care.” Cell phone bars vanish one by one, until there are none. Fischer and his mother view these monthly trips as a chance to make up for lost time. Anderson gave birth to him 15 years after her first-born son and a decade after her daughter.

  9. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    In Italian Sign Language fingerspelled words are produced relatively slowly and clearly, whereas fingerspelling in standard British Sign Language (BSL) is often rapid so that the individual letters become difficult to distinguish and the word is grasped from the overall hand movement. Most of the letters of the BSL alphabet are produced with ...