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Bangladesh: The American Sign Language (ASL) sign for "Bangladesh"

Also see: COUNTRIES

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Notes: 
Topic: The sign for Bangladesh

Notes: There are a variety of signs for Bangladesh. Most of them involve a sign that slides a palm-up flat dominant hand to a position touching or just near your lower dominant-side torso and then changes to a claw shape that looks as if you are holding a grapefruit or bag of coins in your dominant hand and then turns the hand palm down as if setting the bag on a table. This variation and other variations very similar to it shows up in enough sources so as to be considered credible.

However, just because many sources do a certain sign a particular way -- doesn't mean that there are not other accurate signs and/or versions that are very efficient and look as if they are being signed by someone who has signed that version many hundreds or even thousands of times (rather than only a relatively few number of times).

The version of Bangladesh done by Kavita Pipalia seems to be a good example of a highly evolved (quick, efficient, easy to distinguish) sign worth adding to your mental "sign bank." She simply holds out a loose 5 hand and flips it over into a palm-down "S" hand.

Bangladesh [version] (click to expand)

Source:
Pipalia, Kavita (5/21/2020) "Asian Pacific American Heritage Series: Desi," The Daily moth, retrieved 5/22/2020 from: https://youtu.be/d65LN13bioQ?t=20
 




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