The Nepali manual alphabet is fingerspelling devised for the Nepali alphabet-syllabary, Devanagari, to go with Nepalese Sign Language.
[1] 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,[2] 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.
[3] This language-related article is a stub.