Japanese Sign Language (JSL) 日本手話 指文字

This is the Japanese syllabary in Japanese Sign Language. It is equivalent to finger spelling the alphabet. Turn on Annotations to see the KANA character for each sign.
日本手話の指文字です。

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Education

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• JSL
• 手話
• 指文字
• 外国人
• Japanese Sign Language

[nemuineko85]

this is great. Can you show how to do glides and ten ten for sounds like ji and ze and such, if you know how? That's hard to find.

[KanjiKeith]

Watch my second JSL video, 日本手話 指文字 QUIZ 1, and you will find the answer to your request.

[nemuineko85]

@KanjiKeith Thanks! I knew a little about the glides; I'll study them more when I master the basics.

So "shi" becomes "ji" through gliding, and "fu" becomes "pu" by jumping. how do you get "bu"? is it by pulling back?

I may actually need to know this stuff for my job/ a project I'm working on. Thanks again!

[KanjiKeith]

"bu" is to "fu" as "ji" is to "shi"

ブ ← フ as ジ ← シ

All hard-sound changes are made by moving the sign to the right.

All soft-sound (pa, pi, pu, pe, po) are made by moving the sign up.

Pulling back makes the お into を and the others into small-sized characters, like small tsu and small ya.

[nemuineko85]

@KanjiKeith Thanks again. I figured that out right after I commented. >.>

How did you learn this? Do you have a deaf friend, or did you take a class?

Also I find it interesting that they resemble katakana, not hiragana. It makes sense now that I think about it, since katakana is more angular and easier to mimic, and since the function of katakana is closer to the function of fingerspelling than hiragana would be.

[KanjiKeith]

I live in Japan and took a beginner's JSL class last year.

Thank you for watching my JSL videos! I will try to make more.

[Kayogi]

日本語を勉強している大学生ですけど、日本語手話も学びたい！

オンラインで多いリソースがあるけど、ほとんどは日本語だけです­、そして私の日本語は流暢ではありません。

バイリンガルなJSLリソースを知っていますか？

[waffocopter]

Cool. I'm taking Japanese right now and just spontaneously decided to learn the alphabet a few hours ago. Though, from looking at other sites, I find eight painful/impossible for me.

[ciccarello]

its so cause hes nervous :(

[ASL8306]

Sweet! This is slow enough to actually follow along to, Thanks! ありがとう！