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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. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When fingerspelling, the hand is at shoulder height; it does not bounce with each letter. A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held ...

  7. Deaf sheepdog returns to work after learning to read hand signals

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  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.