japanese sign language alphabet

a i u e o
ka ki ku ke ko
sa shi su se so
tac chi tsu te to
na ni nu ne no
ha hi hu he ho
ma mi mu me mo
ra ri ru re ro
ya yu yo
wa wo n

Here's the website:
http://www.tgs.co.jp/signlist/finger.htm

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[bun4bun]

Im hoping to start Japanese and Deaf studies in the Uk. I have always wanted to learn sign and would like to learn JSL as well as BSL. thankfully there is a deaf Japanese girl at our university so I hope i will have the chance learn a few things from her.

[mvoir33]

@bun4bun :D I sincerely hope your study goes well! Hmm as to your question, no real connection. I started learning French before Korean. But French studies has been slow for me. I prefer learning from daily conversations with native speakers. However, I'm not exactly living in a French populated area. So my goal one day is to live in numerous countries and learn them. What I can do now, is once in a while learn them from books, radios, kind of really slowly by myself.

[MrCountCoCoaFang]

"se" is the middle finger in the opposite direction?.....cool.

[Deathdome9]

I got lost after the 287th letter. You are very pretty though.

[gigi1bokus]

Wow from what i am hearing the japanese alphabet has the same system of giving a "primary" letter different sufixes, as the tigrinjan alphabet "Geea`z".

[ThePeter74Peter]

What a cutie!

[InsaneRaine]

This very quickly began sounding like a song and got stuck in my head....so while I may not know the signs...I now know the Japanese alphabet...

[keyblade19961]

the easyest is ん since its like you just write it in the air in katakana (ン)

[mewtwo711]

For the "ra ri ru re ro" part, I couldn't help but think of the Patriots from Metal Gear Solid, the "la li lu le lo". Lost in translation, sadly, but cool nontheless.

[neverjanay]

oooh this so makes me want to learn japanese XD then jsl! I have to learn a language for school (even though I'm a Deaf studies major XD) so that might work!

[montesESP1]

OmG! Can i know why are you learning Sign Language? =)

[coda8810]

this is so awesome!

[MEVelpe]

Extremely helpful. It's nice to have actually see the movements of each character instead of just seeing pictures of each letter. Thanks!

A friend of mine regularly uses Pidgin Signed English even though she's hearing. What's interesting is that if she forgets a word in conversation she finds that by signing that word she can remember how to say it. I've started getting into this when I study foreign languages, but I'm also trying to get in the habit of fingerspelling in the original language.