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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ1270269
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0302-1475
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New Evidence for Early Modern Ottoman Arabic and Turkish Sign Systems
Richardson, Kristina
Sign Language Studies, v17 n2 p172-192 Win 2017
The earliest descriptions of Latin finger alphabets were recorded in southern Europe between 1579 and 1589. New literary and visual evidence for sixteenth-century Ottoman Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sign systems are presented and analyzed in this article.
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Turkish, Alphabets, Sign Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Finger Spelling, Foreign Countries, Islam, Christianity, Written Language, Medieval History, Translation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey; Ottoman Empire
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