Fwd: [DEAFACADEMICS-L] Sanskrit manual alphabet?

[Carol Padden]

To all - this is from a colleague on a listserv for deaf academics.
Anyone have ideas or suggestions? Please be sure to include
Teresa's email, cc'ed above.

Carol


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>From: Teresa Burke <tburke at UNM.EDU>
>Subject:      [DEAFACADEMICS-L] Sanskrit manual alphabet?
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>Hi all,
>
>Is anyone aware of a Sanskrit manual alphabet that my interpreter and I can
>refer to when fingerspelling Sanskrit terms during lectures?  There are
>several diacritical marks that I need handshapes for, and I'd rather not
>'reinvent the wheel.'  e.g. while taking German, I used the German manual
>handshapes for the umlauted vowels, etc.  If no standard manual alphabet
>for Sanskrit exists, I'd love to hear suggestions from those of you who
>have worked with this language.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Teresa Burke

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Carol A. Padden
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Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
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