FW: Cree hand signals homepage

[Daisuke Sasaki]

Interestingly, most of the signs listed are identical to ASL counterparts, with some exceptions, i.e. SHOES, WHEN, HOW, and so on.  Can you find any clue to those different signs than ASL ones?  Are they still used as dialectal signs in some areas?


Daisuke

At 7:44 PM +0900 02.4.23, Nobukatsu Minoura wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I received this on the Chinook Jargon mailing list.  I do not know if this
> "Cree Sign Language" is a systematic sign language of hearing Crees or just
> a collection of signs/gestures used along with spoken Cree.  And I do not
> know its relationship to Plains Sign Language either.  Anyway this site has
> a nice collection of moving-image files of the "signs."  If you have time,
> you may want to see them just for fun.  Enjoy.  (BTW, I corrected the URL
> because the 3-line URL that Dave gave didn't work well.)
>
> Nobukatsu Minoura
> Linguistics
> Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
> minoura at tufs.ac.jp
> nobum at gol.com
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
> Reply-To: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:54:36 -0400
> To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Cree hand signals homepage
>
> I hope this weird-looking link works for you!  An extensive collection of
> video frame sequences demonstrating Cree hand signals (sign language).
> Good material, maybe useful in other Native sign language research.  There
> are plenty of hand signals for post-contact phenomena, for what it's
> worth.  --  Dave
>
> http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cree/cree/1.htm


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