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Letters made with both hands.
Also known as: BSL fingerspelling, Two-handed fingerspelling
The manual alphabet used in British, Australian and New Zealand signing, formed with two hands.
Spells the letters of the written alphabet using both hands.
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Uses the five fingers of the passive hand for the five vowels, which makes the vowels learnable in one step and is the feature the one-handed alphabets have no equivalent of.
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Not mutually intelligible with the one-handed alphabets, so a signer trained in one cannot read the other without learning it.
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Hand figures using both hands together, several of them formed by touching a point on the passive hand with the active one.