Cape Town 12
- Title
- Cape Town 12
- Description
- Cape Town 12 is an initialised-descriptive sign that incorporates the X handshape for both hands. The dominant hand moves with the palm facing upwards back and forth across the forearm of the non-dominant hand, which faces palm down. This variant originates from the Afrikaans Deaf community. They have a sign for ‘Kaap’, which is a colloquial reference to the areas surrounding Cape Town. This variant is a lexical variation from both Cape Town 07 and Cape Town 12.
- Place Type
- Town
- Years Recorded
- 2024
- Research Site
- Bloemfontein
- Kimberley
- Phuthaditjhaba
- Thaba 'Nchu
- Thaba 'Nchu
- Phuthaditjhaba
- Kimberley
- Part of Location Collection
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Cape Town
- Home Language
- Afrikaans
- SASL Shorthand Annotation
- #2,{0,?2,*1,!1,[X,^4,~26,&1,*2,!1,[X,^4,~26,&1
- Category Value
- Handedness: 2
- Contact: 0
- Mouthing: 2
- Dominance: 1
- Location: 1
- Handshape: X
- Palm orientation: 4
- Movement: 26
- Repetition: 1
- Dominance: 2
- Item sets
- SASL place-name Signs (Variants)
- Media
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Cape Town 12
Part of Cape Town 12