signwriting: sign languages are written languages!

SignWritingSign Languages Are Written Languages!

SignWriting Script ISO 15924 Sgnw

by Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost

SignLanguagesareNOTinternational.

SignLanguagesaredifferent inevery country.

Some countries have more than one Sign Language.

Canada, for example, uses American Sign Language (ASL) and French-Canadian Sign Language from Quebec (LSQ).

and...AmericanSign Language (ASL) andBritish Sign Language (BSL) are nothingalike!

AmericanSignLanguagewasinfluenced by French Sign Languagelong ago.

SignWritingwrites body movements, which meansthat any Sign Languagecan be written.

SignWritingis used towrite some40 Sign Languages around the world...

SignLanguagesare becomingwrittenlanguages because of SignWriting.

SignWriting does not change ASL or any Sign Language.It recordsthe waysigns look.

SignWritingis not alanguage.It is a scriptthat writeslanguagesthat alreadyexist.

SignWritingis writtenby hand and by computer, directly onthe worldwide web...

VisitSignPuddle Onlineto writeSign Language dictionariesand documents...

SignPuddle Onlinewww.signbank.org/signpuddle

Write Signs OnlineCreate Signs in SignPuddlewww.signbank.org/signpuddle

Write Dictionaries OnlineCreate Dictionaries in SignPuddle

www.signbank.org/signpuddle

Write Literature OnlineCreate Sign Documents in SignPuddle

www.signbank.org/signpuddle

30 Groups of SymbolsThe International SignWriting Alphabet 2008

www.signbank.org/signpuddle

Sutton’s SymbolBankwww.movementwriting.org/symbolbank

Visit SignWritingOnline tolearn toread Sign Language Literature...

SignWriting Onlinewww.SignWriting.org

SignWriting Videoswww.signwriting.org/video

SignWriting Literature Projectwww.signwriting.org/literature

Gospel According to JohnRomero Translation: 21 Chapters Written in ASL

www.signwriting.org/library/bible

Cat in the Hatwww.signwriting.org/library/children

Sleeping Beautywww.signwriting.org/signpuddle

Cinderellawww.signwriting.org/library/children

Why SignWriting?www.signwriting.org/video/about

Textbooks on SignWritingwww.signwriting.org/lessons

Dissertation on SignWritingDeaf Education, University of New Mexico

www.signwriting.org/usa

Dissertation on SignWritingDeaf Education, Jordan University

www.signwriting.org/arabia

ISO 15924 World Scripthttp://unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html

The SignWriting Listwww.signwriting.org/forums/swlist

Sutton DanceWritingwww.dancewriting.org

Sutton Movement Writingwww.movementwriting.org