Global Bible translations into SW ?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 18, 2009

Hello Maria and Everyone!

Smile...The larger American continent, which includes South America,  
Central America, and North America is huge, that is for sure. And  
there must be hundreds of sign languages, many of them not known, in  
such a big area of the world.

As far as North America goes, I believe three countries are considered  
a part of North America...Canada, the US and Mexico. Those were the  
three countries that signed the North American Free Trade Agreement  
(NAFTA), for example.

Within the United States, we have 50 states and several territories.  
Each state has its own government, and then we are tied together by a  
Federal government in Washington DC.

And yes...the US spans a large area. Ron Dettloff and the Deaf Church  
in Michigan are around 3000 miles away from where I live in  
California...We are on the opposite sides of the US from each other.

And Nancy Romero, Lucinda O'Grady Batch and Adam Frost are all members  
of the DAC, the Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting, and we all live  
in Southern California, in Northridge area, and in San Diego, near  
Mexico.

Cherie Wren, who wrote, among others, Cat in the Hat in ASL, is  
located in Georgia, and there are signwriters all over the US now...

So you can read about SignWriting in the US:

SignWriting in the USA
http://www.signwriting.org/usa/usa.html

Now...none of that really matters, since we are all connected by the  
internet! Isn't life wonderful, the way we can work together anywhere  
in the world, because of our computers and the internet.

Regarding the writing of the translation of Bible passages into  
American Sign Language...I know of two projects using SignWriting:

Shores Deaf Church Translation from the King James' Version (English  
Bible)

read about them on the web:
http://www.signwriting.org/usa/michigan/deafchurch.html

or read their documents on the web:

SignBible Web Site
http://www.cyberjer.com/signbibl/
Webmaster: Jerry Spillman

or visit the ASLBible Puddle:
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=28


The Romero Translation is being done here in Southern California. The  
ASL Editor is Lucinda O'Grady Batch, for the Romero Translation. There  
has been interest by an important Deaf group to possibly help with  
editing the Romero Translation in the future and that is great  
too...so things are always evolving! you can visit the Romero  
translation here:

http://www.signwriting.org/library/religion.html


And Maria, I am running behind, but I would honored to post your  
documents too someday, on that web page...

Val ;-)

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On Aug 18, 2009, at 1:30 PM, MARIA AZZOPARDI wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How many people are working on Bible translations using SignWriting  
> across
> the globe?
>
> So far in America I know of Nancy Romero, Ron Dettloff, - are these  
> from
> the same organisation? I'm sorry for my ignorance - coming from  
> Europe, I
> see America as one big country- I forget it's a continent and that  
> means
> each state is a seperate country just like Italy is seperate from  
> Germany
> etc etc.
>
>> From Europe, I know of tiny us in Malta who are doing some  
>> translations of
> Bible passages..anyone else? What about Africa and Asia??
>
> It would be great to have us all contacts etc, for sharing  
> information,
> issues etc.
>
> Well done to the Deaf congregation in Michigan ;)
>
> Maria
>
>> SignWriting List
>> August 18, 2009
>>
>> Pastor Ron Dettloff and the Deaf congregation in Michigan sends me,
>> from time to time, their writing of Bible passages in SignWriitng.  
>> You
>> can read their documents in the ASL Bible Puddle:
>>
>> ASL Bible Puddle
>> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=1&sgn=28
>>
>> Click on Search by Words icon top left on screen, and place an
>> asterisk * in the search field and press Search. A listing of all the
>> documents will give you many choices...
>>
>> Here is Romans 7 v4 that Ron wrote...I think it is so lovely in  
>> color!
>> Thanks for sharing your documents, Ron!
>>
>> You can read this document here:
>> http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/searchword.php?ui=1&sgn=28&sid=7208



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