SignWriting sorts by handshape, movement symbols, facial expressions...

[Valerie Sutton]

Yes...absolutely. The SignWriting "alphabetization" is called the  
Sign-Symbol-Sequence (SSS). We sort dictionaries and vocabulary lists  
by the Sign-Symbol-Sequence regularly, using SignBank and SignPuddle  
software.

So we look up signs in dictionaries by Sign-Symbol-Sequence...and it  
is not just sorted by handshapes...but also by movement symbols,  
facial expressions and so forth...

Some examples of children's dictionaries sorted by SSS are on this  
web page:

http://signbank.org/dictionaries/

Numbers 2 and 4 are both ASL-English, meaning that we are  
categorizing the dictionary by Sign-Symbol-Sequence...

Val ;-)

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On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Grushkin, Donald A wrote:

> This raises the question, then: Does SignWriting have a specific
> established ordering of the symbols by which, were one to consult a
> SignWriting dictionary, could know that handshape <A> is followed by
> handshape <B> and within each sign, orientation <a> is not found  
> before
> orientation <b>, and so on and so forth, so that one could conceivably
> "alphabetize" all the signs in the lexicon?
>
> --Don Grushkin

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