Editing Russian manual alphabet

{{Short description|Fingerspelling system for Russian}}
[[File:Russian manual alphabet written in Sutton SignWriting.png|alt=Russian manual alphabet written in Sutton SignWriting|thumb|336x336px|Russian manual alphabet written in [[Sutton SignWriting]]]]
The '''Russian Manual Alphabet''' (RMA) is used for [[fingerspelling]] in [[Russian Sign Language]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Like many other manual alphabets, the Russian Manual Alphabet bears similarities to the [[French manual alphabet|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> RMA includes 33 hand gestures, each of which corresponds to one letter in the Russian alphabet. There are no signs denoting punctuation or capitalization.<ref name=":0">{{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 }}</ref>

In 2015, researchers at the [[Peoples' Friendship University of Russia]] developed a software–hardware system that converted RMA gestures into textual form.<ref name=":0" />

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==External links==
*[http://www.deafblind.com/russima.html Russian Manual Alphabet reference photos]

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