On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Obviously you can have a word in any sing language for
the character "w".
However, as sign languages are based on signs, there are no words in sign
languages *using *the character w not do they use the sound that is
expressed by the w.
Proper nouns are often spelled out in SignWriting. See
http://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs6/sw0517-Cat-In-The-Hat-ASL.pdf
where the word "Sally" is translated into SignWriting (third page,
fourth column, first row).
How is the word "Wikipedia" written in SignWriting? I figure it's
either spelled out or there's a sign for "wiki". Probably the latter
in some circles, and the former in others.