IRISH and ETHIOPIAN Fingerspelling ;-)

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 23, 2006

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> The most unusual finger spelling alphabet that came to my eyes is  
> the EMA.
> I cannot believe that people can learn and even perform that in a  
> reasonable
> time!  Greetings to Eyasu ;-))  Stefan ;-)

Ha! Great to see everyone's messages about Irish  
Fingerspelling...That old SignWriting chart was taken out of the  
Lessons in SignWriting Textbook in 2004 because it wasn't a perfect  
writing of the way it was produced, according to some Irish friends  
who informed me of this, so I took it out for fear it was  
incorrect...smile...

And I am so looking forward to working on the Ethiopian symbols in  
the IMWA...I am working on the IMWA right now, doing other symbols,  
but Ethiopian handshapes are next on my things-to-do...and I love the  
photos and illustrations that Stefan and Eyasu so diligently  
produced...smile...

Projects in front of me:

1. Ethiopian Handshapes!!

2. Printing and donating materials to the French-Belgian Schools who  
joined the SignWriting Literacy Project several months ago, and they  
never received their materials - I am so sorry for the delay!

3. Preparing for the NAD Conference here in California in June-July

We have such beautiful weather here today...I hope everyone can have  
as happy a Spring as we are having here!


Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
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