[DEAFACADEMICS-L] Sanskrit manual alphabet?

Barbara Shaffer bshaffer at UNM.EDU
Tue Aug 20 22:31:03 UTC 2002


He is in north carolina. Ill forward this to him.

Cheers!

On 8/20/02 2:44 PM, "Mickey Jones" <DHSVRCV at dhs.state.il.us> wrote:

> Does anyone know where Madan Vasishta is now ...possibly the DC area. He might
> be able to help.
>
> Mickey Jones
>
>>>> Rna8arnold at AOL.COM 08/20/02 02:45PM >>>
> Sanskrit is a rarely used language as far as I know. Perhaps someone from
> India could offer some suggestions? You could look at India Sign Language
> fingerspelling systems. However I doubt if there are any Deaf who know
> Sanskrit as it is used only by Sanskrit scholars and religious scribes.
>
> Best approach is to work with your Deaf client on a system that works for
> both of you.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> richard Arnold

Barbara Shaffer
Assistant Professor
Signed Language Interpreting
Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~bshaffer/index.html
http://www.unm.edu/~sign/



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