SignWriting
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Sign Writing is a system of writing the movements and handshapes of sign languages. It was developed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton, a dancer who had two years earlier developed Dance Writing.
As Sutton was teaching DanceWriting to the Royal Danish Ballet, Lars von der Lieth, who was doing research on sign language at the University of Copenhagen, thought it would be useful to use a similar notation for the recording of sign languages. Sutton based Sign Writing on Dance Writing, and finally expanded the system to the complete repertoire of MovementWriting. However, only SignWriting and DanceWriting have been widely used.
See also
External links
On SignWriting
- [SignWriting]
- [SignWriting software] Java programming language, DOS, Microsoft Windows.
- [SignWriting Markup Language] (SWML) XML and SVG
- [Dictionary of the Flemish Sign Language] (uses SignWriting)
Other links
- [The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System] (HamNoSys)
- [Sign Language IPA] (SLIPA)
- [The MUSSLAP Project] Multimodal Human Speech and Sign Language Processing for Human-Machine Communication.
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