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Which Is Your Prime Hand in Sign Language?

June 11, 2009

I am trying to learn sign language but all the sites are on about your prime hand and your secondry hand, which is which?

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Go Rangers! June 11, 2009 at 4:45 am

Yeah, the other posters are right. Usually it's called the "dominant" and "subordinate" hand, but it's basically the hand you're most comfortable with.

I'm right-handed, so that's my dominant hand when I'm signing. If only one hand moves during a sign, that's the one that moves. That's the one I use to fingerspell or produce one-handed signs.

If I was a lefty, everything would be reversed.

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