Kaixo!
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:44:01AM +0100, Skriptor wrote:
Excuse my ignorance, but how do you write sign language? I was under the impression that no common written form of sign language exists (although I know of attempts to create a notification system, which is however more like a dance notation language than a normal alphabet).
Writting sign languages with alphabets makes no sense at all, as there is no sound to encode, but motions and expressions instead. An ideographic system is much more logical to the nature of the languages; and while current representations are quite far away of what we would expect a written language to look like, if it spreads in use it could well evolve to be something looking like chinese writting.