[Sw-l] Thai Fingerspelling: Vowels and marks

Sat Oct 16 19:41:50 UTC 2021

Mayday, Carlos Cristian here!
I am so happy to see these productions written in different sign languages.
My heart is full!
I was very happy when I opened the "inputs" NO Signpuddle of Sutthikhun and
saw that in addition to the written sign, in several there is a video of
the sign being made.
Thank you for this work of art.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 3:15 PM Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org>
wrote:

> SignWriting List
> October 16, 2021
>
> Hello SW List Members, and hello Sutthikhun!
>
> Thank you, Sutthikhun (Ae), for this amazing posting. Yes, we remember
> your posting of the Thai Fingerspelling of Consonants about 2 months ago.
> The message is in the SignWriting List Archives.
>
> Thank you for posting the second half of the work
>
> We can also view and search for your individual entries on SignPuddle:
>
> Thailand SignPuddle Dictionary
> https://www.signbank.org/signpuddle2.0/index.php?ui=1&sgn=34
>
> …and then click on 71 entries added this week … and a listing of the 71
> entries appear. Thank you for all you are doing - quite amazing!
>
> And I love the way you explain the history behind the development of Thai
> Fingerspelling in your email below. Thank you for your research and
> information.
>
> Your diagrams are valuable and very helpful, and will be accessed over
> time I am sure.
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
>
> Valerie Sutton
> sutton at signwiting.org
>
> -------------------
>
> On Oct 15, 2021, at 2:36 PM, Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai <
> suttikunep at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Hello SWList members!
> • If you still remember, I published on Thai Fingerspelling of
> Consonants almost 2 months ago, just before the SW mail list went down.
> Here's the second-half of the work I recently finished, which involved
> fingerspelling (FS) a lot of Thai vowel elements and other marks.
> • By the way, I'd like to express my appreciation to Adam Frost and
> Valerie Sutton for their advice on hand symbol selection and proper
> detailing in writing signs for the FS. There appear to be several other SW
> approaches and alternatives that I still need to learn more about from you
> all, SWList members here!
> • Moreover, I intend to add FS of scripts in other languages to
> SignPuddle after this work is completed. As far as I can see, there are
> only FS based on the Latin alphabet in SignPuddle for now. I think having
> FS written in SW for various types of letters would be fascinating and
> useful!
> The following are the details of my work:
> • Thai Fingerspelling: Vowels and marks
> Sutthikhun Phaengphongsai (15 Oct 2021)
> • In 1952, Khunying Kamala Krairiksh collaborated with Dr. Elizabeth
> Benson to develop Thai FS for Thai consonants and also vowels and marks
> (VMs) from that of American Sign Language (ASL). Because English only has
> five vowel alphabets (a, e, i, o, and u), ASL vowel FS is still
> insufficient for the number of VMs in Thai. As a result, Thai FS had to be
> modified a wider range of hand gestures to accommodate all 16 vowel
> elements, 4 tonal marks, and 4 other marks, totaling 24 marks.
> • The VMs in Thai FS presentation are traditionally arranged as
> scattered stuffs on the palm of a hand, but in this figure, the hand
> gestures have been literally rearranged according to the position of the
> VMs in each Thai syllable to make it easier to understand where the true
> position of each element in that syllable is.
> • Wikimedia file:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sign_ThSL_fingerspelling_vowel.png
> My rearranged table style of Thai FS
>
> The traditional Thai FS presentation
>
>
> Actually, because figures with analogous hand gestures in the new table
> are not placed as close to each other as in the traditional presentation,
> I'm not going to affirm that my rearranging makes it easier to learn. I
> simply want to arrange them in a different way by grouping them by Thai
> writing alphabetical position.
>
> Thank you for letting me share here ;)
>
> Sutthikhun (Ae)
>
>
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