ISO 639-3 code for International Sign Language--a good idea? How to proceed?

[Valerie Sutton]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Ulrike Zeshan wrote:
> I have never heard of Signuno, did you mean to say that this is  
> something devised artificially, in parallel with Esperanto?
> Ulrike

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Signuno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signuno

(an excerpt taken from the above web page is below...)

from Wikipedia...

"Signuno is a manual encoding of Esperanto, derived from Gestuno  
roots and Esperanto morphology by an anonymous author.

Its alphabet has signs for Esperanto's diacritic letters : Ŝ, Ĥ,  
Ĝ, Ŭ are derived from their base letters S, H, G, U; while Ĉ and Ĵ  
(like J) are of Cyrillic origin. H, P, Q are from the Irish manual  
alphabet, while Z (shaped like an ASL 3) appears to be derived from V  
and unique to Signuno. The other letters follow international norms.  
(That is, similar to ASL but with an Irish T.)

The system works to capture Esperanto grammar rather than exploit the  
spatial options available to sign language; it faces similar  
shortcomings as did de l'Épée's "methodical signs" in comparison to  
French Sign Language. Because of this, it is unlikely to be viable as  
an independent sign language. In effect, Signuno is a manual,  
logographic orthography for Esperanto; comparable to Manually Coded  
English vis a vis spoken English.

Some proponents of Signuno repeatedly confuse such a coding system  
with a language. It is very important to note this distinction: This  
encoding system is analogous to the Latin script used for writing  
Esperanto (and English and many other languages), as it simply  
encodes the words of the language Esperanto; it is not a sign  
language, but a visual mode of the spoken language Esperanto.

In 2010, the rights to Signuno will be handed over to the Akademio de  
Esperanto."

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and

signs themselves:
http://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.5/index.php?ui=11&sgn=54

Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org
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