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New Evidence for Early Modern Ottoman Arabic and Turkish Sign Systems
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 2017
- pp. 172-192
- 10.1353/sls.2017.0001
- Article
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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.