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.
--
Ki ça vos våye bén,
Pablo Saratxaga
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