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represents thicker, larger round flat objects such as a hockey puck or ashtrays (sign for ashtray- cigarettes).
What is 2 Fingers “C” Hand:
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CL:F
What is small round, flat disk-like shape such as a coin or button.
100
CLASSIFIERS
Handshapes used in ASL to describe specific action, motion, shape, size, location ; What are Classifiers
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Classifier that represents a line of people
What is CL: 44
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represents the placement of large objects such as buildings, houses, cities, piles or masses of anything.
What is Curved “5” Hand:
200
(like g bigger c with thumb and index) also represents round, thin, flat objects but larger than those represented by the “F” hand. Such as badges, larger buttons, cookies in a plate or placement, larger spots, bigger bruises. Two hands can show lager objects such as plates, pictures on a wall (placement) etc.
What is Flat “C” Hand:
200
CL:C>
What is Cylinder-like shape such as a glass, cup.bottle, large candle.
200
What are not classifiers?
They are not signs
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describe thickness of an object such as a sofa, counter, low hedge, or a thick border or edge.
What is CL:C=
200
represents the placements of objects such as lamps, trophies on the shelves, houses, stores, etc.
What is “A” Hand:
300
represent small, round, flat, thin objects. Such as buttons on a shirt, coins, spots on clothes, bruises, or rosy cheeks
What is “F” Hand:
300
CL:C*
What is for objects such as a book, a flat box, a box of candy, or a stack of paper
300
Classifiers are used to do what?
They are used to describe and give signs like whole sentences can be portrayed with just the movement of a classifier.
300
represents or indicates the outline of a shape such as a window.
What is CL:11
300
represents any flat object, paper, books, shelves, pictures on the wall etc.
What is “B” Hand:
400
usually represent a small animal, i.e. the rabbit hopped by or the animal died. But also can represent people sitting i.e. we sat around the table or the two of us sat down.
What is Crooked “V”:
400
CL:LL
What is round, flat disk-like shape such as a saucer, clock face, or circular picture.
400
CL:5
What is small round objects such as a baseball, an apple, or an orange.
400
represents objects which do not move such as a house or other building, a statue.
What is CL:A>
400
represents thinness, such as thinness of dust, or snow, books, picture frames, mustaches, etc.
What is “G” Hand:
500
often represents persons but can represent any long, thin object such as poles, pencils, pens, and a hot dog in a bun. (I.e. someone walking away, or up to your face, or the man walked right pass me (with both hands but the dominant hand had the action. or plural the bride and groom walking together, or many people walking up to you. Or long thin objects like the pencils lined up in a row on the table, or the pencil fell of the table. 2. : can be used to show the legs of a person walking, jumping, skipping, walking rapidly, slipping and falling or getting on a horse.
What is Index finger and the Upside down “V”
500
CL:O*
What is for thin, flat objects such as a sheet of paper or a thin magazine.
500
CL:S>
What is for handle-like objects or objects with handles such as a broom, a pitcher, or a mug
500
A large mass (people. animals, objects) over a large area
What is CL:55 wiggle; wiggle
500
represents round objects such as cups, glasses, bottles, post, or thick objects such as books, snow on a roof, thick dust on a table, a picture frame. i.e. my car ran into a post, the roof had snow on it this thick, the picture had a thick frame, took a thick book off the shelf, the man had a thick mustache
What is 4 Finger “C” Hand: