[Sw-l] Request for Studies and Materials on SignWriting for Academic Research

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
July 3, 2025

Hello Icaro, Olavo and SignWriting List members:

Thank you Icaro, for your questions. Your work sounds great and we all are interested to know more. And thank you, Olavo, for the excellent links… great start…

Icaro - may I start by asking you - are you Deaf or hearing? Do you sign in LIBRAS yourself? Do you know how to write signs in SignWriting? or are you a beginner? All is good. But it is good to know in case we later communicate on Zoom and I might need interpreters ;-)

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Here is a web page with 7 hours of History videos on SignWriting, spoken in English, Portuguese captions, and with LIBRAS and ASL interpreting:

History of SignWriting
https://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0097.html

More soon...

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Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
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> On Jul 3, 2025, at 11:44 AM, Olavo Leal Fernandes <olavoleal90 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Icaro.
> I think here on this website you can find what you are looking for: https://www.signwriting.org/about/
> Especially, on this topic: https://www.signwriting.org/library/history/
> 
> I hope I could help you.
> 
> Olavo Leal
> ____________________

> Em qui., 3 de jul. de 2025 às 10:16, Icaro dos Santos Lima <icaro.lima at eldorado.org.br> escreveu:

> Dear SignWriting Community,
> My name is Icaro, and I am currently working on an academic research project about SignWriting. I work at a research institute in Brazil, and my study focuses on exploring inclusive technologies and written systems that can better support the Deaf community in Brazil and beyond.
> I am deeply interested in learning more about the SignWriting system—particularly its conceptual foundation, how the symbols are created, and how it was developed to visually and structurally represent sign languages. However, I have encountered limited resources or detailed documentation that explain the creation process of the symbols and the linguistic principles behind them.
> If possible, I kindly ask if you could share any official materials, publications, or studies that describe what SignWriting is, how the symbol system is designed, and how it can be applied in educational and research contexts. These resources would be extremely valuable in supporting my academic report and in helping to disseminate this powerful tool within the Brazilian Deaf community.
> Thank you very much for your time and for the incredible contribution you’ve made to the field of sign language literacy.
> Sincerely,
> Icaro Lima
> 
> 
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