[Sw-l] [SPAM] Re: Thai fingerspelling: 42 consonants

[Marie Alexander]

That looks so beautiful - well done!

I have a very good Thai friend of mine who wrote her PhD dissertation on
the Thai writing system back in 1980.
So I was delighted to see this wonderful piece of work. Keep up the good
work!

Marie Alexander (from Malta)


On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 23:15, 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.
>
> [image: Sign_ThSL_fingerspelling.png]
> Thanks for letting me publish my work,
> [image: sign (14).png]
> Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai
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