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

Tue Aug 31 14:03:30 UTC 2021

Hi SWList members, Valerie, and Marie!

I sincerely hope that my effort will be beneficial to the deaf
community. In ThaiSL, it appears that SW is still not commonly employed as
a way of teaching. And I expect that my works will serve as one of
jumping-off places for the Thai deaf community or interpreters to know more
about how to read, write, and apply the SW. I will work more and more on
this way!

Anyway, to recognize that S↓ would have to coexist with the Ch column
according to the regular Thai script classification, I changed the cell
color of S↓ to yellow and linked an arrow to the Ch column. And I've also
uploaded this image at the Wikimedia Commons website at the following link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thai_fingerspelling_42_consonants_written_in_Sutton_SignWriting.png
.

[image: sign (14).png]
Sutthikhun (Ae)

On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:34, Marie Alexander <marie.alexander at um.edu.mt>
wrote:

> 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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