use of sign language in Jordan

[Adam Frost]

SignWriting is an alphabet. Each sign is broken up into each component of "phoneme" of the sign language ie handshapes, palm orientation, location, and movement. It wouldn't be logographic because the sign for CAT in ASL would be written the same as CAT in BSL which does not happen. SignWriting also couldn't be syllabaries because why might be a common syllable in French Sign Language might need to be broken up to mean anything in Jordan Sign Language. I don't know what abjads, abugidas, and featural systems are, so I can't go off on that. Unless SignWriting fits better with one of these, the only catigory that fits is alphabet. 

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: "Kathy H." <kaylynnkathy at hotmail.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:29:55 
To:"A list for linguists interested in signed languages"<slling-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Subject: RE: [SLLING-L] use of sign language in Jordan


Steve,
  
 What do you mean by "alphabet"?  
  
 There are different types of writing systems, such as alphabets (English), syllabaries (Japanese), logographic systems (Chinese), abjads (Arabic), abugidas (Devanagari), and featural systems (Korean).  
  
 What type of system is SignWriting?  

 Kathy

 
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 Steve wrote (among other things):  

The SignWriting Alphabet is going to be released under the Open Font License for public use.  The SignWriting user is able to read and write with the sign language alphabet and communicate without spoken language or video.  

  


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