Hand shape symbol EMA 28

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
April 16, 2009

Hello Stefan and Eyasu!
I am so happy to know that you are working together on writing  
Ethiopian Sign Languages...and the Fingerspelling Alphabet ;-)

And thank you for your question, Stefan. I had not seen that version  
of that handshape before, and it will have to be constructed in the  
ISWA, if you need the fingers straight, and it can be of course...I  
will show you how I would write it next message...

And of course you are always welcome to create TT fonts!

I tried to place all the handshapes of the Ethiopian Fingerspelling in  
the ISWA, as you know, and we do have another handshape that looks  
very close...is it possible that this is the same fingerspelling, just  
performed with a different style? It is on this web page:

http://www.signwriting.org/ethiopia/ethiopia07.html

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Of course writing it with straight fingers is a different handshape in  
SignWriting, but it is possible that some people bend the fingers  
while fingerspelling quickly in Ethiopia...We have the same issue with  
the letter M in ASL fingerspelling...although it is taught with  
fingers down, people sign it quickly with fingers straight...so styles  
of fingerspelling do vary...

Val ;-)

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On Apr 16, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Stefan W?hrmann wrote:

> Hi Valerie, Eyasu and SW-list,
>
> behind the scenes we are very busy to finish the Ethiopian  
> Fingerspelling Alphabet ...
>
> Just a question ? do we already have a symbol for this hand shape ?   
> it is not a fist with the thumb in the middle ? the fingers are  
> hinged at about  90 degrees thumb inside touching the palm  - pinky  
> straight up ? (but later in a different orientation ? smile ? palm  
> to the floor)  Can you show any graphic so that I can design a TT  
> Font of that?
>
> Would be great ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Stefan ;-)
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