On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@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.