1.1.3. The manual alphabet & number signs
Many signs in LSC have specific handshapes that are taken from the manual alphabet used to fingerspell letters/words of spoken languages. In the table below, some examples of signs created on the basis of the manual alphabet are shown.
|
Letter of the alphabet |
Fingerspelling |
Signs based on a fingerspelled letter |
|
A |
|
article |
|
B |
|
basis, faction (bando) |
|
C |
|
constitution, curriculum, cv, course, classifier, counselor, culture |
|
D |
|
didactics, decree, decathlon, dvd, cd-rom, diesel, council (diputació) |
|
E |
|
eso, ethiopia, statutes (estatut), europe |
|
F
|
|
philology (filologia), physiotherapy (fisioteràpia), philosophy (filosofia), faith |
|
G |
|
manager (gerent), gram, benzine (gasolina) |
|
H
|
|
mortgage (hipoteca), history, hotel, hypothesis, huelva, horta, vegetable_garden (hort) |
|
I |
|
high-school (institut), identity, idea, initiative, novelty (innovar), index, illustration |
|
J |
|
language-1 (llenguatge), hopefully (ojalá), joan |
|
K |
|
kiwi, kilo |
|
L |
|
law, language-1 (llenguatge), language-2 (llengua), linguistics, novice (learner) |
|
M |
|
moodle, master |
|
N |
|
norm, neither (ni), never |
|
O |
opinion, ordinary assembly |
|
|
P |
|
parliament, paranoia |
|
Q |
|
/ |
|
R |
|
rector, regulations (reglament), reflection, snore, sound_of_belly, religion |
|
S |
|
service, system, senate, social health_system (seguretat_social), san_sebastián, century |
|
T |
|
therapy, theory |
|
U |
|
ue |
|
V |
|
cv, advantage, lifely (vital), widow (vídu/a), poison (verí), green (verd), viladecans, vilassar_de_mar, vietnam, valldoreix, venezuela, verb |
|
W |
|
workshop (international sign system), whisky, web |
|
X |
|
meritxell, xavi |
|
Y |
|
youtube (international sign system) |
|
Z |
falta |
/ |
Some signs in LSC are derived from number signs. Below we can see the sign no_idea thatis realized by displaying the handshape of the number zero in the forehead of the signer.
no_idea