Sutton SignWriting is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters used in
SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial ar ...
, a system for writing
sign language
Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with non-manual markers. Sign l ...
s that was developed by
Valerie Sutton
Valerie Sutton (born February 22, 1951) is an American developer of movement notation and a former dancer.
Early life
She was born in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, the daughter of a physicist father and a poet/ model mother. She ...
in 1974.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sutton SignWriting block:
See also
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Sutton SignWriting
Sutton SignWriting, or simply SignWriting, is a system of writing sign languages. It is highly featural and visually iconic, both in the shapes of the characters, which are abstract pictures of the hands, face, and body, and in their spatial arr ...
External links
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SignWriting Character Viewer (Unicode 8)
References
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Unicode blocks