<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>July 8, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dear SW List -</DIV><DIV>I am posting a recent message from Eyasu in Ethiopia because it is so fascinating!! Imagine having 233 alphabets in one country! That must make communication quite complicated for the people of Ethiopia! But I think it is great, that Eyasu attached a scan of their Manual Alphabet below, so we can start writing their unusual handshapes together, slowly one by one...Many thnks for this email, Eyasu!...You will find email from me on the SignWriting List, one handshape at a time...It may take some time, but check back regularly and we will accomplish the task! Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">eyasu tamene <<A href="mailto:eyasuh@yahoo.com">eyasuh@yahoo.com</A>></FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">July 8, 2005 5:30:51 AM PDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Ethiopian New Signs!!</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Dearest Val,</FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Will there be any excuse for my disappearance? I have been preparing for my final exam. Infact I have been reading the site and adding the new signs. Still I wonder whether they are readable. For instance </FONT></STRONG><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">-</FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"> Mother</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><IMG src="cid:46BECB15-91BB-42BB-8C46-364B4E48E9AA@local"> G.Mother </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><IMG src="cid:3C6D3AD9-B864-4CF1-8C42-47BDDAA36554@local"></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"> Father </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><IMG src="cid:9C51AAFC-6B84-4C69-B85D-96CDD007BA35@local"> G.Father </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><IMG src="cid:247AABCC-A136-41E9-A257-84296426892C@local"></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"> Egg- </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><IMG src="cid:1813D4E4-BE76-4D62-8B83-FB278FD64A96@local"></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""></STRONG> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">I have got it tiresome to take a picture of Ethiopian Manual Alphabet thirty-three times. Thus I have decided to Scan them and give a discription of them. </FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">The numbers are the order of the alphabet. Below I have given no's like V2-V7 to refer to the vowels. Totally there are around 233 alphabets in Ethiopia. To View what Ethiopian alphabet looks like- </FONT></STRONG><A href="http://www.tourismethiopia.org/pages/alphabet.asp">http://www.tourismethiopia.org/pages/alphabet.asp</A> </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Hoping to read you soon</FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms">Eyasu</FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#BF00BF" face="comic sans ms"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:3947CCA9-4BB2-4DE2-8E1D-ACF2E938350B@local"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>