Kilt in Sign Language (ASL) ?

[Mickey]

Hey folks,
My son is working on a final exam for his sign language class in school, which is to sing a song in sign. He wants to kilt up and do "Donald Where's Your Trousers" and was wondering if there is a sign for kilt that is different than skirt. We've done a fair amount of searching, with no luck. Figured if anybody might know, it would be someone in here. Any ideas?

[chrisupyonder]

http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/KILT

I think he is signing "Scottish skirt" rather than just "skirt".

[Standard]

http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/KILT

I think he is signing "Scottish skirt" rather than just "skirt".

Yes, that is "Scottish skirt". I don't remember a sign for kilt, but admittedly I wasn't wearing kilts when I first learned to sign, and didn't have much reason at the time to need to learn it. It does seem appropriate since many words in ASL are made up of two parts. An example of which would be the word bible which is signed as Jesus Book.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

It's rather neat that the sign for Scotland (or Scottish) is the fingers drawing the crossing stripes of tartan on the left shoulder:

http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/scotland

[Mickey]

Thank you so much, Chris!

[PEEDYC]

http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/KILT/1641/fingerspell

This is the word KILT being spelled out.

[Schiehallion]

I will ask my Scottish friend who is deaf and signs but he uses English sign language and for Scottish it is twice pumping with the crooked left arm to simulate bagpipes! He will be interested in how it is done with ASL
Again two countries separated by a common language!

[Mickey]

You're right, Barb, this is awesome! Thank you everyone! I'll take all the info I can get.

This helps for more than just his exam too. Our daughter is autistic and stopped speaking about 12 years ago. She communicates now with PECS and rudimentary sign, which we are all learning (slowly for me... tricks for old dogs and all... hahaha) so I'll take every bit of teaching I can find. Besides, once we started learning it, it was amazing to find out how many folks are out there who rely on ASL that we can somewhat talk to. It's pretty cool!

[KenB]

I agree with Chubrock's wife. Finger spelling KILT is perhaps faster than signing Scottish skirt.
I would also suggest contacting the folks @ http://www.gallaudet.edu/. as these folks are the higher education centre for the Deaf Community in the USA. If anyone should know definitively, these people would know.