SignWriting

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SignWriting
Script type	Iconic featural script
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
Unicode range	U+1D800–U+1DAAF
Website SignWriting.org Mobile m.SignWriting.org

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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 unlike the letters of 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).