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Another widespread approach, [[Cued Speech]], is a visual representation of the [[phoneme]]s (sounds) of a spoken language. As the entire set of phonemes for a spoken language is small (English has 35 to 45, depending on the [[dialect]]), the system is relatvely easy to adapt for other languages. As of [[2006]], 60 languages or dialects have Cued Speech systems, though many are not in use or in marginal use.

Cued Speech can be seen as a manual supplement to [[lipreading]]. A limited number of handshapes (representing [[consonant]]s) and locations near the mouth (representing [[vowel]]s) differentiate between sounds not distinguishable from on the lips. When viewed together with lip patterns, the systemgestures rendersrender all [[phoneme]]s of the spoken language intelligible visually. It not traditionally referred to as a Manually Coded Language, and is in many ways more akin to [[fingerspelling]] than to the signed spoken languages above.

==List of manually coded languages==