Handshapes of a Korean Signer

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 26, 2007

Hello Jason, and Charles...
Many thanks for your help, Charles...

As you know, I am working on adding new Ethiopian handshapes to the  
ISWA this week:

Ethiopian Handshapes
http://www.signwriting.org/ethiopia/ethiopia02.html

There are around 12 new handshapes I will be adding to the ISWA this  
week...

If you have a photo of hands doing the handshapes you require, Jason,  
I will be happy to add them...but without a photo or good drawing I  
will not be able to...

So please send us some photos or drawings of the handshapes needed...

Many thanks!

Val ;-)

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Jason Hopkins wrote:

> I'm taking SIL classes at the University of North Dakota for the  
> summer.  I had a project to gather and document a word list from a  
> native signer from South Korea.  My team ran across two handshapes  
> we cannot find.
>
> The first you can make the shape by extending all your fingers on  
> one hand, then draw the tips together to form a circle, but don't  
> touch.  It is like holding a golf ball with your just your finger  
> tips while keeping the fingers extended, but flexed at the proximal  
> Knuckle.
>
> The other is like having your hand cupped with these adjustments:  
> the thumb is spread from the palm, the pinky is fully flexed with  
> it's tip touching the palm, the ring is a bit lest flexed, the  
> middle even less, and the index is hooked but not extended.  If you  
> pretend you are holding a stop watch you'll probably have it.
>
>
> Any suggestions as to what hand shape to use?  What other info do  
> you need?
>
> -Jason
>
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