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Valerie Sutton Date: Fri May 5, 2000 3:12 am Subject: Flemish Fingerspelling Design Posted | |
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SignWriting List May 4, 2000 Hi Everyone - You might enjoy looking at this web page: Belgium-Flemish Fingerspelling Keyboard Belgium-French Fingerspelling Keyboard https://www.SignWriting.org/fkey032.html Notice how similar the two Belgian fingerspelling systems are...even though they are connected to two separate spoken languages...Belgian-French and Belgian-Flemish. In my lack of knowledge about Belgium, I had assumed that the French speaking part of Belgium used the "AZERTY" keyboard because France does...I had connected the AZERTY keyboard with the French language. And I assumed that the Flemish (Dutch) speaking part of Belgium would use the keyboard layout that the Netherlands uses, assuming that the language of Dutch would influence the typing system. But I was wrong! All of Belgium appears to use the AZERTY keyboard, no matter what the language. Therefore, that means that just accross the border, in the Netherlands, they type differently - with the symbol for A and Q in another place. Typing is not standardized around the world! Even Denmark has one or two symbols switched from the Norwegian, and they were once the same country.... By the way, the AZERTY keyboard means that the left six keys of the second row from the top of the keyboard spells AZERTY, instead of QWERTY, like we type here in the US. Val ;-) |
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