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    ASL uses a 26-sign manual alphabet to spell English words, with each letter represented by a unique handshape and orientation. While fingerspelling can represent words, it does not constitute all of ASL, which is a fully-formed language. Fingerspelling in ASL is used for proper nouns without signs, technical terms, and short English words or abbreviations to borrow from English into ASL.

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    ASL uses a 26-sign manual alphabet to spell English words, with each letter represented by a unique handshape and orientation. While fingerspelling can represent words, it does not constitute all of ASL, which is a fully-formed language. Fingerspelling in ASL is used for proper nouns without signs, technical terms, and short English words or abbreviations to borrow from English into ASL.

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    ASL Possesses A Set of 26 Signs Known As The

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    ASL possesses a set of 26 signs known as the American manual alphabet, which can be used to spell out [71]

    words from the English language. These signs make use of the 19 handshapes of ASL. For example, the signs for 'p' and 'k' use the same handshape but different orientations. A common misconception is that ASL consists only of fingerspelling; although such a method (Rochester Method) has been used, it is [48] not ASL. Fingerspelling is a form of borrowing, a linguistic process wherein words from one language are [48] incorporated into another. In ASL, fingerspelling is used for proper nounsand for technical terms with [48] no native ASL equivalent. There are also some other loan words which are fingerspelled, either very short English words or abbreviations of longer English words, e.g. O-N from English 'on', and A-P-T from [48] English 'apartment'. Fingerspelling may also be used to emphasize a word that would normally be [48] signed otherwise.

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