<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>May 27, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Sergio wrote:</FONT><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Since November 2003 we have a brazillian discution group</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">(</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: " courier="" new";color:black;="" font-size:="" 13.3333px;=""><A href="http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/escrita_sinais/"><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/escrita_sinais/</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">actualy we are 48 participants, we are deafs and hearings and I am creater and moderater of group.</FONT><BR></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><DIV><DIV><DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Val answered...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Does your group have any contact with the groups in Pelotas and Porto Alegre? and in Sao Paulo? I can see I need to update our web site area about Brazil! I will add your photos and your information...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">SignWriting in Brazil</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil.html">http://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil.html</A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Our web site is quite out of date, because there is so much happening all the time!</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><DIV><DIV><DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="apple-style-span"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Now I producing Brazil SW NewsLetter especific to signer or LIBRAS user. Brazil SW NewsLetter will writing in signwriting, and now I am preparing the first edition. I wanna talking about SignWriting</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">history, I have this information, by I wanna talking signwriting use actualy, how many countries and how many user groups in the world. Have you news informations about ? Is 27 countries most recent number ? Do you know how many deafs use signwriting actualy ? How about USA signwriting use today ?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Val answered...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I was hoping to go through my email soon, to see what countries have told me of projects...I believe it is more like 30 signed languages, and 28 countries...Belgium has two different signed languages (Flemish Sign Language and Walloon Sign Language....the sign language used in the area of Belgium that speaks a French dialect called Walloon)...So I need to clean this up a little...Here are two web areas:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Who Uses SignWriting? (listed by country)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org/about/who">http://www.SignWriting.org/about/who</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">SignPuddle Online Dictionaries (listed by Sign Language)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><A href="http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle">http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">So I would say 30 signed languages in 28 countries...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The USA is just one of those 28 countries. Within the USA, there are several projects. The SignWriting Literacy Project started in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but there are other groups and individuals in the US that use SignWriting...for example, in Iowa the Pass-It-On-Services organization is founded and directed by two Deaf people: Stuart Thiessen and Philippe Galant...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I do not know how many people use SignWriting, because it is free on the internet. We have around 3000 unique visitors to our web sites daily, and some stay on our web sites for hours at a time...And the software is downloaded continually...so we have guessed, counting the projects in different countries, that there are thousands that use SignWriting...maybe 8,000 to 10,000 people...judging by the visiting of our web sites...within a one-week period. But this is not a scientific count!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">New </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">people do not tell me when they are using SignWriting so I cannot give you an accurate number of users ;-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">You can just say that small groups of people in 28 countries are using SignWriting and that because it is free on the internet, it spreads without us knowing the exact number of users...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Everyday I receive email from individuals all over the world, and when complete strangers tell me that they have been using SignWriting for several years, I find it amazing myself....</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Hope this helps!</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Val ;-)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Valerie Sutton</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="mailto:Sutton@SignWriting.org">Sutton@SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. SignWritingSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.SignWriting.org">http://www.SignWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Read & Write Sign Languages</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. SignBankSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.SignBank.org">http://www.SignBank.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sign Language Dictionaries</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3. DanceWritingSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.DanceWriting.org">http://www.DanceWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Read & Write Dance</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4. MovementWritingSite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.MovementWriting.org">http://www.MovementWriting.org</A></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Read & Write Movement & Gesture</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">5. SymbolBank On The Web</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">www.MovementWriting.org/symbolbank</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Archive For All Symbols</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Center For Sutton Movement Writing</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">an educational nonprofit organization</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tel: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>