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Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arrangement on the page, which does not follow a sequential order like the letters that make up written ...
History - SignWriting. SignWriting emerged from DanceWriting, a movement writing notation invented by Valerie Sutton in 1966 to record ballet dance steps. Sutton trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet, and while there used DanceWriting to record the classic Danish ballet dances.
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What is SignWriting?: Read, write, type all Sign Languages of the Deaf. Sign Languages are written languages! Learn to write sign language and read sign language books, stories and literature.
SignWriting History: Articles on the history of SignWriting, a way to read and write any sign language in the world, including a list of contributors to SignWriting, publications since 1974 and Year-End Reports.
SignWriting is a writing system which uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages. It is an "alphabet" - a list of symbols used to write any signed language in the world.
Stokoe notation ( / ˈstoʊki /) is the first [1] phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands.
