Re: Signed Conlangs
| From: | Daniel Lawrence <daniel@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 26, 2007, 2:28 |
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On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:17 -0500, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 1/22/2007 10:41:32 PM Central Standard Time,
> carrajena@YAHOO.COM writes:
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> > But Nicaraguan Sing has a written form.
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> Last I heard, Nicaraguan Sign used Sutton's SignWriting.
That's correct, in fact Sutton had to add additional hand shapes to
accommodate Nicaraguan Sign. It is the written form of their language
(more so on the Atlantic side then the Pacific side). Apparently they
have a keyboard layout for it(?), at least that seemed to be implied,
when I asked the resident expert on Nicaraguan Sign about it.
~ Daniel