Sign Language Mid Term Classifiers

CL 1

• Person (standing or walking)

• Skinny Object (sticks, pencils, cigs)

• Outline of object (board, window, shapes)

• Animal-moving (worm, caterpillar, etc)

CL 2 or V

• 2 people

• Legs

• Eyes

• Moving object

CL 2 Bent or V bent

• Person (sitting)

• Animal moving (fangs, sitting, walking)

• Object moving (chair, roller skates)

CL 3

• 3 people

• Vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle, boat)

• Feet (walking, hiking, duck feet)

CL 3-Bent

• Gripped object (ball, computer mouse)

• Beak (eagle, falcon)

• Totaled car

CL 4

• 4 people

• Line of people

• Object (leaking, drooling, draining)

• Streaming/Downloading

CL 5

• Air (wind, breeze)

• Vomit

• Water (ocean, flood, waterfalls)

• Crowd

• Traffic (multiple lanes)

CL 5 Bent

• Audience 

• Huge pile

• Hair (curly, wavy)

• Clouds/Smoke

• Gripped object (ball, climbing)

• Animal (herd, clow, growling, biting)

CL A

• Immovable object (house, statue, trophy)

• Spatial relation (distance of object, position of object)

• Movement (people chasing, person going back and forth)

CL B

• Flat object (surface, wall, floor, shelf)

• 3 dimensional object (box, room, house)

• placed object (bed, table, book, car)

• depth

• feet/shoe walking

CL B curved

curved object (bowl, boat, sink)

CL B bent

• flat surface (road, land)

• height, size, amount

CL C

• cylindrical object (cup, bottle, pipe, tree

• thickness (muscle, book, paper

• vehicle (train, limo, trailer

CL C-Clawed

• Large house or place

• Spherical object (ball, doorknob)

• Round object (bottle cap, headphone)

• Section/Group

CL F

• Small round object (coin, button)

• Long cylindrical object (stick, hose)

• Hold or Pick up thin object (hair, needle)

CL F-Open or C-Open

Round and flat object (cookie, coin)

CL G

Flat and thin object (frame, mustache)

Depth of object (thick/thin book, amount of water)

Movement (bird beak, blinking, tweezer)

Distance

Stripe 

Holding small object 

CL H or U

Tie/Bow

Spreading (butter, jam)

Thin and flat object (knife, label)

Tongue

CL H-Thumb

Gun

Paintbrush (medium size)

CL I

String like object (string, wire, rope)

High heeled shoes

Boundary line, perimeters

CL L

Nozzle of object (hose, hair dryer, drill)

Flat square or rectangle shaped object

CL L bent

Spring or pulling trigger

size of object

flat square or rectangular shaped object

Stripes

CL O

Holding round cylinder object

Cylindrical object (pipe, pole, branch)

Goggles, telescope, binoculars

CL Flat O

Holding or handling flat object (brim of hat, paper, ticket)

Flat tire

Animal with long neck

Talking or shutting up

CL R

Cigar

Twisted object (rope, braids)

Rocket

CL S

Head of person or animal 

Holding object

CL X

Hunched over person or animal

Object with hook (hanger, fishing hook)

Running

Convertible cars top

CL Y

Object with handle (mug, pitcher)

Curved object (Cow horn, smoking pipe, phone)

Heavy person or animal

Measuring an object

Hippo mouth