Help Establish The Indic Finger-Spelling Alphabet

We have modified Ekushey typing system to analyse a Bengali corpus to get valuable letter frequency data, revealing a wide spread of letter frequency from 14% ( ) right down to 0.01% ( & ). We also have data on the Panjabi language.

We are looking for letter frequency analysis data of the other major Indic languages. Most important are Hindi, Gujurati, Marathi, Tamil, Telegu & Urdu. Second best would be a corpora and systems to analyse them. Chhattisgarhi, Chittagonian, Gujarati, Haryanvi, Kashmiri, Magahi, Marwari, Nepali, Sindhi & Sylheti are of secondary importance, but data would still be very useful. 

To pilot the new finger spelling standard in India and Bangladesh we will need . If you are a sign language teacher or are responsible for a deaf educational institution and are interested to get involved in the pilot study, contact us at .

The finger spelling standard will be distributed over the Internet by means not only of training documents but also through a Finger Spelling Font and an interactive piece of software for training students and teachers. We are therefore seeking the services of a fontographer to make the font and a programmer to make the training software. If you are interested to help, join the mailing list

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