SignWriting
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sgnw, International Sign Writing Alphabet, Sutton SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a writing system for sign languages. It can be used to write any sign language, including American Sign Language, Brazilian Sign Language, Tunisian Sign Language, and many others.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- SignWriting
- Writing system.type
- Iconic featural script
- Writing system.languages
- American Sign Language, Danish Sign Language and other sign languages
- Writing system.time
- 1974–present
- Writing system.sample
- SignWriting-render.svg
- Writing system.imagesize
- 64
- Writing system.iso15924
- Sgnw
- Writing system.unicode
- U+1D800–U+1DAAF
- Writing system.note
- none
- Writing system.direction
- horizontal (left-to-right) or vertical (top-to-bottom)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Symbols
- Signs
- Writing direction
- Alphabetical order
- Handwriting
- Software
- Unicode
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Research
- Development
- See also
- References
- External links
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a writing system for sign languages. It can be used to write any sign language, including American Sign Language, Brazilian Sign Language, Tunisian Sign Language, and many others.
SignWriting is the only international writing system for sign languages. It has been used to publish young adult fiction, translate the Bible, caption YouTube videos, and study sign language literacy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SignWriting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.