[Sw-l] Thai fingerspelling: 42 consonants

[Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai]

Hello SWList members! ☺

🇹🇭 ThaiSL, my country's official sign language, uses fingerspelling
analogous to that of ASL, but it's a little more complicated since Thai
script contains up to 42 consonant letters in everyday life (plus 2
obsolete letters), *therefore some letters have been modified or extended
to fit the entire number of Thai letters.*

🖐 Thai fingerspelling was invented by Khunying Kamala Krairiksh in 1952
with an ASL interpreter, Dr.Elizabeth Benson, a dean of the Department of
Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University, the world's first liberal arts
university founded in the United States.

👉 According the information I've gathered from multiple sources, the Thai
fingerspelling was still not written in SW and was not well grouped
alphabetically with tables. As a result, *I redesigned previous Thai
fingerspelling tables to be more clearly categorized and presented with SW,
making it easy to compare the differences between each hand gesture as
following:*

*Description:*
Thai fingerspelling: 42 consonants
Written in Sutton SignWriting
by Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai (30 Aug 2021)

This table has been designed according to the classification of Thai script
and their pronunciation, which is divided into 5 groups by color, 13
columns by hand gesture, and 6 rows by the number of variants per hand
gesture. Some letters, such as ง ( Ng) that normally coexists with ก ( K)
and ญ ( Y1) that normally coexists with ฉ ( Ch), have been moved to the
same column as น ( N) and ย ( Y) respectively to be arranged according to
hand gestures. In addition, isolated hand gestures that have no variant
have been extracted in the first column, which are color-coded to know
which group of letters they are separated from.

[image: Sign_ThSL_fingerspelling.png]
Thanks for letting me publish my work,
[image: sign (14).png]
Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai

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