Guinea-Bissau Sign Language

🇬🇼 GBSL
  • Content provider
    MORPHOLOGY
    • Mariana Martins
    • Marta Morgado
    PHONOLOGY + LEXICON
    • Mariana Martins
    • Marta Morgado
    Acknowledgements:
    the signers in the pictures: Eduardo Moniz, Marcos de Barros, Martinho Monteiro.
  • Phonology
    B1.1. Handshape – Active articulators
    Handshapes used in

    Handshapes used in lexical signs

    hs_index
    hs_indexoncircle
    hs_indexbent
    hs_indexhingeonfistlow
    hs_indexmiddle
    hs_indexmiddleoncircle
    hs_indexmiddleunit
    hs_indexmiddlecross
    hs_indexmiddlethumb
    hs_indexmiddleunithinge
    hs_indexmiddlethumbangle
    hs_indexmiddlethumbhinge
    hs_indexmiddleunithingethumbside
    hs_indexmiddleunitthumbside
    hs_fivefingersspread
    hs_fivefingersspreadfourbent
    hs_fourfingers
    hs_cupopen
    hs_cupopennothumb
    hs_flat
    hs_flatthumbforward
    hs_angle
    hs_circle
    hs_hinge
    hs_indexmiddlering
    hs_babyindex
    hs_babythumb
    hs_babyup
    hs_indexthumbhook
    hs_indexthumbside
    hs_indexthumbangle
    hs_indexthumbcurvethumbunder
    hs_thumb
    hs_fist
    hs_thumbsideunit

    Handshapes used in classifier constructions

    hs_index
    hs_indexmiddle
    hs_fivefingersspread
    hs_fourfingers
    hs_cupopen
    hs_flat
    hs_circle