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{{Short description|One-handed manual alphabet}}
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}
The '''Korean manual alphabet''' is used by the [[Deaf]] in [[South Korea]] who speak [[Korean Sign Language]]. It is a one-handed alphabet that mimics the shapes of the letters in [[Hangul]], and is used when signing [[Korean language|Korean]] as well as being integrated into KSL.

==Consonants==
The only letter with motion as a component is ''ssang siot'' ({{Lang|ko|ㅆ}}), which starts as two crossed fingers pointing down and then snaps open.

{|
|[[Image:KSL g.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㄱ}} g''']]||[[Image:KSL n.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㄴ}} n''']]||[[Image:KSL d.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㄷ}} d''']]||[[Image:KSL r.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㄹ}} r, l''']]||[[Image:KSL m.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅁ}} m''']]
|-
|[[Image:KSL b.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅂ}} b''']]
||[[Image:KSL s.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅅ}} s''']]||[[Image:KSL ss.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅆ}} ss''']]||[[Image:KSL ng.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅇ}} ng''']]||[[Image:KSL j.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅈ}} j''']] 
|-
|[[Image:KSL ch.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅊ}} ch''']]||[[Image:KSL k.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅋ}} k''']]||[[Image:KSL t.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅌ}} t''']]||[[Image:KSL p.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅍ}} p''']]||[[Image:KSL h.jpg|100px|thumb|'''{{Lang|ko|ㅎ}} h''']]
|}

==Vowels==
{|
|[[Image:KSL a.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅏ a''']]||[[Image:KSL ae.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅐ ae''']]||[[Image:KSL ya.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅑ ya''']]||[[Image:KSL yae.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅒ yae''']]
|-
|[[Image:KSL eo.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅓ eo''']]||[[Image:KSL e.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅔ e''']]||[[Image:KSL yeo.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅕ yeo''']]||[[Image:KSL ye.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅖ ye''']]
|-
|[[Image:KSL o.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅗ o''']]||[[Image:KSL oe.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅚ oe''']]||[[Image:KSL yo.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅛ yo''']]
|-
|[[Image:KSL u.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅜ u''']]||[[Image:KSL wi.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅟ wi''']]||[[Image:KSL yu.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅠ yu''']]
|-
|[[Image:KSL eu.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅡ eu''']]||[[Image:KSL ui.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅢ ui''']]||[[Image:KSL i.jpg|100px|thumb|'''ㅣ i''']]
|}

Note that the difference in orientation between ''eo, yeo'' and the diphthongs based on them, ''e, ye'' is not significant.

==See also==
{{Commons category}}
*[[Korean language]]
*[[Korean sign language]]

{{Manual alphabet}}
{{sign language navigation}}
{{Korea topics}}

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