When you have a direction indicator above and up the letter that represents the Handshape (˄); The palm faces to the side. Fingers/knuckles point outward or away from the signer. (Palm facing one side; the position of the hand when the palm faces one way or the other. For a signer who uses the right hand as the dominant hand, the natural position is with the palm of that hand facing his; For a signer who uses the left hand as a dominant hand, the natural position is with the palm of that hand facing his or her right.)
This only changes when followed by a alphabetic character with a different place indicator. Example:
This combination is very common in Writing Signed Languages; It does not produce any change, it only indicates the difference between the left hand and the right hand. Right hand:
It can also indicate the first point of contact for writing the sign language words. Left hand:
Writing pronouns in the airspace.
Describing the signs in their spatial field does not offer any difficulty if you take into account that to use it, it follows the same procedure as body place.
/ - This alphabetic character when it is between the words indicates that the hand moves from back to front crossing the determinative Line.
\ - This alphabetic character when it is between the words indicates that the hand moves from front to back crossing the determinative Line.
When a handshape crosses the determinative line, the orientation of the hand will adopt the same position of the hand configuration that initiated the sign, and the space will be the spatial field in front of the sign.
This will only change if an added location alphabetic character indicates a different location in space.
Examples:
What is an "HSS"?
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It is the union of a handshape and vowels finger or manual alphabetic character.
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