Russian manual alphabet

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The Russian Manual Alphabet (RMA) is used for fingerspelling in Russian Sign Language.{{Cite book|title=Language in motion : exploring the nature of sign|last=Daniel.|first=Schein, Jerome|date=1995|publisher=Gallaudet University Press|others=Stewart, David Alan, 1954-|isbn=978-1563680397|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=32349605|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/languageinmotion0000sche}}

Like many other manual alphabets, the Russian Manual Alphabet bears similarities to the French Manual Alphabet. However, it was adapted to account for the letters of the Cyrillic alphabet found in the Russian written language. It is a one-handed alphabet.{{Cite book|title=The Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education. Volume 2|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Marschark, Marc., Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth.|isbn=978-0195390032|location=New York|oclc=607613491|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhandbookof0000unse_n8f6}} RMA includes 33 hand gestures, each of which corresponds to one letter in the Russian alphabet. There are no signs denoting punctuation or capitalization.{{Cite journal|last1=Nahapetyan|first1=V. E.|last2=Khachumov|first2=V. M.|title=Automatic transformation of Russian manual-alphabet gestures into textual form|journal=Scientific and Technical Information Processing|language=en|volume=41|issue=5|pages=302–308|doi=10.3103/s0147688214050037|issn=0147-6882|year=2014|s2cid=16028141 }}

In 2015, researchers at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia developed a software–hardware system that converted RMA gestures into textual form.