AW: [sw-l] new handshape added to the ISWA

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 3, 2008

Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:
> people say that DGS includes almost 30 handshapes  but several of  
> the other handshapes we use to write in SW are not to be found among  
> this set either. So – hm – no it is not an officially handshape  
> nevertheless we use it for special reasons ... smile


Hi Stefan!
OK. I will be happy to add that handshape...I am sure there are more  
than 30 handshapes in DGS...perhaps not linguistically important  
(smile) but all signed languages I have seen seem to have a lot of  
variations of handshapes...

The handshape is a hard one...how have you been writing it in  
SignWriting? I have my attempts but they look weird, since the  
handshape itself is a bit unusual!





Very hard to do by the way...I personally cannot do it ;-)

Val ;-)
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