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Definition of Finger alphabet
1. Noun. An alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions.
Generic synonyms: Alphabet
Group relationships: American Sign Language, Asl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finger Alphabet
Literary usage of Finger alphabet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1908)
"Without finger-alphabet: German Method—Oral Method—Pure Oral Method. b. ...
With finger-alphabet: Early German School. C. Written language, with it ..."
2. Education of Deaf Children: Evidence of Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander by Edward Miner Gallaudet, Alexander Graham Bell (1892)
"There are indisputably times and places in which the finger alphabet fulfils, as
writing cannot do it, the conditions of expression where vocal utterance ..."
3. Diseases of the eye and disorders of speech in childhood by Oskar Everbusch, Max Nadoleczny (1914)
"Psychic expressions were taught by VOL. VII.—25 Number of words (finger alphabet).
... finger alphabet."
4. Dumb No Longer: Romance of the Telephone by Fred De Land (1906)
"The sign-language and the finger alphabet are easily taught and readily learned,
while the teaching of the oral method is one of infinite patience and ..."
5. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf by Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (1887)
"There are indisputably times and places in which the finger alphabet fulfills,
as writing cannot do it, the conditions of expression where vocal utterance ..."
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