<div dir="ltr">That looks so beautiful - well done!<div><br></div><div>I have a very good Thai friend of mine who wrote her PhD dissertation on the Thai writing system back in 1980.</div><div>So I was delighted to see this wonderful piece of work. Keep up the good work!</div><div><br></div><div>Marie Alexander (from Malta)</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 23:15, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <<a href="mailto:suttikunep@gmail.com">suttikunep@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello SWList members! ☺<div><br></div><div>🇹🇭 ThaiSL, my country's official sign language, uses fingerspelling analogous to that of ASL, but it's a little more complicated since Thai script contains up to 42 consonant letters in everyday life (plus 2 obsolete letters), <u>therefore some letters have been modified or extended to fit the entire number of Thai letters.</u><br></div><div><br></div><div>🖐 Thai fingerspelling was invented by Khunying Kamala Krairiksh in 1952 with an ASL interpreter, Dr.Elizabeth Benson, a dean of the Department of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University, the world's first liberal arts university founded in the United States.<br></div><div><br></div><div>👉 According the information I've gathered from multiple sources, the Thai fingerspelling was still not written in SW and was not well grouped alphabetically with tables. As a result, <u>I redesigned previous Thai fingerspelling tables to be more clearly categorized and presented with SW, making it easy to compare the differences between each hand gesture as following:</u><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Description:</b></div><div>Thai fingerspelling: 42 consonants<br>Written in Sutton SignWriting</div><div>by Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai (30 Aug 2021)</div><div><div><br></div><div>This table has been designed according to the classification of Thai script and their pronunciation, which is divided into 5 groups by color, 13 columns by hand gesture, and 6 rows by the number of variants per hand gesture. Some letters, such as ง ( Ng) that normally coexists with ก ( K) and ญ ( Y1) that normally coexists with ฉ ( Ch), have been moved to the same column as น ( N) and ย ( Y) respectively to be arranged according to hand gestures. In addition, isolated hand gestures that have no variant have been extracted in the first column, which are color-coded to know which group of letters they are separated from.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_ksz4uwe90" alt="Sign_ThSL_fingerspelling.png" width="452" height="320"><br></div><div>Thanks for letting me publish my work, </div><div><img src="cid:ii_ksz4zs4r1" alt="sign (14).png" width="45" height="40"></div><div>Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai<br></div></div>
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