Re: Signed Conlangs

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.

:Chris



>From: Daniel Lawrence <daniel@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
>Subject: Signed Conlangs
>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:33:02 -0500
>
>Hello fellow conlangers,
>
>I'm wondering if anyone on here has developed a signed conlang. The idea
>occurred to me as I was watching one of the Dune mini-series the SciFi
>channel put out, I think it was Children of Dune, and there is a scene
>where Bene Gesserit high priestess and Irulan are talking in a room that
>had been bugged and they were using a secret sign language to
>communicate. I think it would be an interesting project, but as far as
>workshop-ing it as one might a written/spoken conlang seems a bit more
>difficult - I can sit in the doctor's office making notes in IPA or
>whatever in my notebook, but I can't exactly make a video of me signing,
>well I guess I could with a laptop, etc, etc but not without being a
>little disconcerting. Any ideas?
>
>~ Daniel
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