Also see: COUNTRIES
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 and/or "standard."
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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