Polish manual alphabet

First published version of the Polish manual alphabet

The Polish manual alphabet is a single-handed manual alphabet used in Polish Sign Language (Polski język migowy; PJM).

PJM users fingerspell via this alphabet, to express words that are not otherwise available within PJM. Such use cases include names, technical jargon, and abbreviations/acronyms.[1]: 4 

References

  1. ^ Tomaszewski, Piotr (30 November 2015). "Constraints on Negative Prefixation in Polish Sign Language". PLoS ONE. 10 (11) e0143574. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1043574T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143574. PMC 4664272. PMID 26619066.


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