Re: Signed Conlangs

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:47:41 -0600, Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
wrote:

>An idea that I've had for a while is to create a con-SL with its own writing
>system.  To my knowledge, there is no such animal in human sign languages
>(though ASL is the only one I'm familiar with -- the only written "version"
>of that language is English, which is linguistically unrelated).
>
>I remember seing somebody's conlang years ago -- I don't recall who the
>creator was (they may even be on this list!) -- which was a sign language
>for a race of tentacled aliens who lacked a sense of hearing.  A written
>version of that language existed, which corresponded to the shape of these
>creatures' four mouth tentacles that they used to make the signs.
Sounds like Denis Moskovitz's Rikchik.
  http://www.suberic.net/~dmm/rikchik/rikchik.html
Dunno whether he reads the list.

Alex