Number of publications with SignWriting?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 19, 2006

SW List Members -
Deborah Anderson asked me to post this message to the SignWriting  
List (see below). This question is in relation to placing SignWriting  
in Unicode. Deborah is attending a meeting of the Unicode Technical  
Committee all this week, and they need to know how many publications,  
(or how many pages in documents), have been written in  
SignWriting?...I told Deborah well over 1000 documents at least, if  
not more, plus the number of pages will be in the multiple thousands...

For example, just the Parkhurst Mystery Novel alone, written in  
Spanish Sign Language from Madrid, is 140 pages of pure  
SignWriting...in a perfect bound book..that is only one of many...

Deborah - You can read about that Novel written in SignWriting on  
this web page:

SignWriting in Spain
http://www.SignWriting.org/spain

Val ;-)



On May 18, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Deborah Anderson wrote:

> Dear Madam (or Sir),
> I am working on a project and need to estimate the number of  
> publications in the world today in SignWriting (books, magazines,  
> articles), as well as those that contain SignWriting (i.e.,  
> introductory books in English or German that teach SignWriting). In  
> doing a search on "WorldCat" via the UC Berkeley library, I only  
> come up with 25 books, which I am sure is probably too low. I see  
> there are two serial publications, The Sign Writer (1989-) and Sign  
> Writer updates (begun?), which ought also to be included in a  
> count.  Do you think the number of books today (as produced in all  
> countries) in SignWriting and with SignWriting might total 400 or  
> so, with magazines perhaps 10?
>
> I've looked through your website and thought it best to write to  
> you for any assistance you could provide. I'd be very grateful for  
> any assistance you can provide.
>
> With many thanks,
> Deborah Anderson
>
> Deborah Anderson
> Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
> Proj. Leader, Script Encoding Initiative
> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei
> NOTE NEW Email: dwanders at sonic.net
> (or dwanders at berkeley.edu)