Japanese Sign Language (JSL) 日本手話 指文字

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

@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!

"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.

@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.

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.