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[Luszka motyluszka ;)]

I see that the ASL alphabet is different to the BSL alphabet which uses two hands. I have included the one handed alphabet on this website because many sign language books will refer to it's hand shapes when describing signs.
Fingerspelling is very interesting and fascinating method of spelling words using hand movements. Fingerspelling is used in british sign language to spell out names of people, animals and places for which there is not a sign. I know that fingerspelling can also be used to spell words for signs that the signer does not know the sign for or to clarify a sign that is not known by the person reading the signer. Fingerspelling signs are often also incorporated into other signs. e.g. the sign for “gold” is the fingerspelt “g” and then moving your hands away in a shimmering motion.
People often ask why not just use fingerspelling instead of sign language, that way you would only have to learn 26 signs and more people would be able to understand. That is a good point, but it would be impractical just to use fingerspelling. Conversations would take hours, and it would be very hard to add feeling and expression to a conversation that was just using fingerspelling. Sign language is a hugely more efficient form of communication when compared with just using fingerspelling.

[_Goffy_]

hmm... a czy mogłabyś po Polsku przetłumaczyć?

[necia]

hmm... a czy mogłabyś po Polsku przetłumaczyć?

Goofy, to jest dział International - Międzynarodowy.

Wątki tutaj są pisane w językach obcych

Poproś Szokową, to napisze po polsku w polskim dziale

[Luszka motyluszka ;)]

Oh, dear Goffy I can translate these into polish language

[_Goffy_]

boże to jo całkiem nie czaje. i tak bede musiał mieć translatora

[Luszka motyluszka ;)]

I found very interesting text about fingerspelling...
http://deafness.about.com/cs/signfeats1/a/fingerspelling.htm

[poprostuagniecha]

Fingerspelling signs are often also incorporated into other signs. e.g. the sign for “gold” is the fingerspelt “g” and then moving your hands away in a shimmering motion.

Not really. It's a feature of manual coded languages, natural sign languages avoid this. Classifiers are often incorporated into the signs instead.

Did you know, that manual alphabets exist for representing Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanāgarī, Bengali, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hangul, Kanji, Kana and Ge'ez scripts? Amazing...