Nepali manual alphabet

The Nepali manual alphabet is fingerspelling devised for the Nepali alphabet-syllabary, Devanagari, to go with Nepalese Sign Language.See "Preface" {{Cite book|author1=Acharya, K. |author2=Sharma, D. |year=2003|title=Nepali Sign Language Dictionary|publisher= Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers|location=Kathmandu}} It was developed by the Kathmandu Association of the Deaf (KAD), with support from UNICEF. Based loosely on the formulations in the American manual alphabet and International manual alphabet,The International manual alphabet is used in Germany, Austria, Norway, and Finland. only the forms for the letters अ (from “a”), ब (from “b”), म (from “m”), and र (from “r”) can be said to derive directly from their Latin alphabet equivalent. All other letter finger-shapes are indigenous.

See "Preface" {{Cite book|author1=Acharya, K. |author2=Sharma, D. |year=2003|title=Nepali Sign Language Dictionary|publisher= Nepal National Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NFDH) by Quality Printers|location=Kathmandu}}