FW: Cree hand signals homepage

[Ritva Takkinen]

Hi Markku,


This kind of message in SLLList. Nice to look at those signs.

Cheers,
Ritva



>?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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