Re: CHAT: My new treasure

On 22 Jan 02, at 8:14, Adam Walker wrote:

> I just found a site on the net at the University of Lyon (guess I was really
> wrong!) comparing the finger alphabets of several SL's.  The French and
> American are VERY similar but there are some real differences.  Our H is
> your N.  We have different X's. Minor differences is several letters
> including F, Y and I.  Italian is also very close to French, but again there
> are some striking differences.  But Swedish?  Man! is it different!
German Sign Language's finger alphabet is very similar to ASL's, as I
recall, with only a couple of minor variations (I think T was one of
them).

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>