IRISH and ETHIOPIAN Fingerspelling ;-)

[eyasu tamene]

Dearest Val. Stefan and all
   
  Thank you for your constructive suggestions on the EMA.  I will pass to my deaf colleagues in here.  The people in fact seem comfortable to learn since no other options to use once own mother tongue.  
  What I can see at the back of this comment is that there need a revision to make things suitable and make life easy. 
  The EMA has 33 alphabets with 7 variant forms of each. Totally 231 alphabets.  The seven variant forms are distinguised by movement of the hand in different directions. I and Stefan have worked on it and presently it has become available in tt-fonts(only some os them).
  Thank you Val for planning to make our projects to include them in IMWA. We are in a position to provide the necessary illustrations.
   
  Best regards,
  Eyasu
   
   
   
   
   
   
  

Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
  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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