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ASL is not a written language, but this font should, hopefully, assist anyone wishing to learn ASL.
The following is a quote from Wikipedia:
"American Sign Language (or ASL, Ameslan) is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the
English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico. Although the United Kingdom and the United States share English as a
spoken and written language, British Sign Language (BSL) is quite different from ASL, and the two sign languages are not mutually
intelligible
ASL is often written with English words in all capital letters, which is known as glossing. This is, however, a method used simply to teach
the structure of the language. ASL is a visual language, not a written language. There is no one-to-one correspondence between words in
ASL and English, and much of the inflectional modulation of ASL signs is lost.
There are two true writing systems in use for ASL: a phonemic Stokoe notation, which has a separate symbol or diacritic mark for every
phonemic hand shape, motion, and position (though it leaves something to be desired in the representation of facial expression), and a more
popular iconic system called SignWriting, which represents each sign with a rather abstract illustration of its salient features. SignWriting is
commonly used for student newsletters and similar purposes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language
23 Comments
now you should do the ghetto gang member version.
like the W from Westside or those hand signs cribs & reds do when they get arrested.
I mean, it could be fun :)
(please don't get me wrong, I do not support gangs)
@cayo LOL - I'm not from South Beach (re: your earlier question about my Deco fetish), nor am I conversant with US gang culture. I'm actually from the Deep South ... of the UK.
I did the Ameslan version because the UK sign language for the deaf uses both hands - and would have been just too unwieldy.
Mind you, now you mention it, maybe I'll see if I can find out more about the ghetto semiology ...
Very cool
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