use of sign language in Jordan

[Adam Frost]

Yes, SignWriting has a very detailed order for all of the symbols used. This is how the dictionaries are ordered. Valerie (or any other SignWriter in the know) can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it is called Sign-Symbol-Sequence (sic) or otherwise known as SSS. 

Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: "Grushkin, Donald A" <grushkind at csus.edu>

Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:45:41 
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


 



Albert Bickford wrote:

Alphabet means "alpha, beta".  It means ordered symbols for writing.  
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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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