Hoi,
Sign languages are discreet languages and SignWriting allows you to write
them. There are MANY sign
languages<http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90008>and
there is no way of knowing if this sign exist in any of the 120 othe
sign languages and what it means if it exists.
As to likelyhood to sharing the same sign, American and Danish Sign Language
have their base in the French Sign Language. British Sign Language on the
other hand does not. I have heard that for really specialised terminology
many signlanguages share the same sign.
NB the reason for choosing ASL is, that they have a request for a WIkipedia
and they hope to show no sooner then October how to make this a reality.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
wrote:
2008/7/25 Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hoi,
I have been told that the top part of the sign can be removed as this
combination of signs is rare and is likely to be understood to be word.
The
top part indicates movement and position. So for
a big image, it can be
the
complete sign and for a small ball the subset
suffices.
The other question... I understand there's a degree of mutual
intelligibility between various sign languages, usually at the simpler
end of things, but varying heavily by language and various factors;
and that signwriting can (at least in theory) represent pretty much
any sign language. Is this an ASL-specific sign, or would it be
understood by, say, an NZSL or BSL reader?
We probably want to make sure we don't accidentally put up the symbol
for "lies" in another sign language ;-)
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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