Sign Languages in India and Pakistan

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 31, 2011

That will be wonderful, Nikhil - Thank you for the message below...Very interesting message...

I hope someday to see signs from the Sign Languages of India written in SignPuddle... It will be interesting to learn about the issues of Deaf culture in India too -

Your contacts are welcome to join the SignWriting List, and all languages are welcome - Thanks to Google translate and other programs, I would assume they could post messages in the spoken language of their region, and we will be able to translate what they say and discuss things on the List with no problem - We actually teach SignWriting here on the List to anyone who asks a question, so they can start one step at a time...

If your friend signs ASL, then he can access the ASL SignPuddle immediately to start:

ASL SignPuddle
http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/index.html#sgn-US

We also have a separate SignPuddle dictionary for India and Pakistan (I did not realize the dialects blended between the two countries):

Pakistan SignPuddle Dictionary
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=87

India SignPuddle Dictionary
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=85

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Val ;-)

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On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Nikhil Sinha wrote:

> Hi!
> Yes, i'm from India. Unfortunately, most deaf people in India don't
> know sign languages (as far as i know). They would know only home
> signs and lipreading. I have a deaf friend in Bangalore. He says he
> signs in ASL. apparently there is an ASL school there. But i cannot
> verify his claim. His finger alphabet does have a few letters
> different from the American one.
> Indian sign language also exists. It is used in various dialects
> across India and Pakistan, but i'm really unsure how many people
> actually learn and use it. When i return to bangalore tomorrow, i'll
> ask my friend if he knows SignWriting. If not, i'll tell him about it.
> It's really difficult to communicate with him, because he's the only
> deaf person in my college, and nobody else knows how to sign. :(
> Nikhil.
> 
> On 31/07/2011, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> July 31, 2011
>> 
>> Are you from India, Nikhil?
>> 
>> If you know any signers in India, we do have an "Indian SignPuddle
>> area"...for people to start writing signs from the country of India - of
>> course there must be many sign languages, or dialects of sign languages, in
>> such a large country, but at least we have an area on the web for them to
>> begin learning how to write signs in SignWriting...in SignPuddle...go to:
>> 
>> Sign Languages from India in SignPuddle
>> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=85
>> 
>> You can see there are zero entries, so I hope you can encourage people to
>> start trying and they can write to us to ask questions and we will help-
>> 
>> Good luck with your project as well -
>> 
>> Val ;-)
>> 
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>> 
>> On Jul 30, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Nikhil Sinha wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi! Okay. Thanks! Even this mail has the same two attachments, so i
>>> guess the mailing software breaks longer SW texts into more than one
>>> picture.
>>> Nikhil.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Val ;-)
>> 
>> Valerie Sutton
>> SignWriting List moderator
>> sutton at signwriting.org
>> 
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> 
> 
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Val ;-)

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