[Sw-l] Thai fingerspelling: 42 consonants

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 30, 2021

Hello SignWriting List members and Sutthikhun!

What an outstanding contribution. Thank you for writing Thai fingerspelling. I believe this is the first time this has been written that I remember anyway. I hope people will post it all over the Internet, and meanwhile I will try to do so too.

It is a beautiful chart!

Thank you,

Val ;-)

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> On Aug 30, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <suttikunep at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks for letting me publish my work, 
> 
> Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai
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