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SignWriting
| SignWriting | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Script type | |
Time period | 1974–present |
| Direction | Horizontal (left-to-right) or vertical (top-to-bottom) |
| Languages | American Sign Language, Danish Sign Language and other sign languages |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Sgnw (095), SignWriting |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | SignWriting |
| U+1D800–U+1DAAF | |
Website SignWriting.org Mobile m.SignWriting.org | |
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of written sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic: the shapes of the characters are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body; and their spatial arrangement on the page does not follow a sequential order, like the letters that make up written words. It was developed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton, a dancer who had, two years earlier, developed DanceWriting. Some newer standardized forms are known as the International Sign Writing Alphabet (ISWA).
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