Announcing the
Sutton SignWriting Platform:
Complete Eight-Series Release
Sutton SignWriting is not always described accurately
in scholarly literature, standards discussions, and related technical work. To help address this, I have released the Sutton SignWriting Platform: Complete Eight-Series Release on Zenodo, GitHub, and my personal website.
This is a comprehensive reference record written from my perspective as the technical author and long-term steward of the Formal SignWriting encoding and software infrastructure. It builds on Valerie Sutton's invention of SignWriting, decades of SignWriting practice, and the work of many writers, teachers, researchers, and communities.
Sutton SignWriting Foundations -
Public entry point and conceptual foundation.
Sutton SignWriting Evidence and Adoption -
Evidence base, adoption
boundaries, and country anchors.
Signed Language Writing Critical Review Series -
Literature and standards review
through the layer-based framework.
Writing and Representation in
Sutton SignWriting
Writing-systems theory, authored space,
and typological framing.
Formal SignWriting -
Technical text model, encoding, search, rendering,
styling, and practice.
Sutton SignWriting Language and Literacy Research -
Research agenda for signed-language literacy,
reading, and pathway questions.
Sutton SignWriting Infrastructure and Program -
Stewardship, host structure, shared infrastructure,
and program design.
Unicode and SignWriting -
Unicode-facing technical notes, compatibility
issues, and standards record.
I have tried to be careful, fair, and precise throughout these
materials. This is not a claim that every sentence is perfect or that these documents are the last word on SignWriting. They are meant to be read, cited, questioned, corrected where needed, and built from.
At the same time, the release plants a clear flag: Sutton SignWriting should be engaged as it actually exists, with its history, practice, dictionaries, software, users, writing-system structure, and technical infrastructure taken seriously. I hope this platform makes it harder for future work to mischaracterize SignWriting or treat it as less developed than it is.
I have also included a short human-facing companion text that says the heart of the project more directly:
ABOVE:
The states of Mexico are written in SignWriting by AnaElsa in 2026.
Thank you, AnaElsa!
¿Qué es CINTESMX?
CINTESMX es la iniciativa organizadora del Congreso Internacional de Escritura de Señas, orientada a promover el intercambio académico, cultural y lingüístico en torno a la escritura de las lenguas de señas, con énfasis en la Lengua de Señas Mexicana (LSM).
📘 Presentación
El 1.er Congreso Internacional de Escritura de Señas y Derechos Lingüísticos constituye un espacio académico, artístico y social que tiene como propósito fortalecer la investigación, la enseñanza y la difusión de la escritura en lenguas de señas.
Este evento busca fomentar la creación e intercambio de materiales didácticos, recursos lingüísticos y experiencias educativas, contribuyendo al desarrollo del conocimiento y a la inclusión lingüística de la comunidad sorda.
Asimismo, el congreso promueve la reflexión sobre la educación bilingüe, la formación docente y la enseñanza de la LSM en diversos contextos académicos y sociales.
🎯 Objetivos
* Impulsar el intercambio académico nacional e internacional
* Fortalecer la investigación en lenguas de señas
* Promover la escritura de señas como herramienta educativa
* Visibilizar la cultura, identidad y derechos lingüísticos de la comunidad Sorda
* Contribuir al cumplimiento y reconocimiento de la Ley de la LSM
🌎 Características del evento
A través de conferencias, talleres y presentaciones, se busca consolidar un espacio de colaboración entre investigadores, docentes, intérpretes y profesionales Sordos de México y otros países.
Este congreso es resultado de la colaboración entre:
* Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
* Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
* Grupo de Académicos Lingüísticos Sordos de México (GALSMX)
Con el apoyo de un comité especializado en interpretación profesional en Lengua de Señas Mexicana.
📍 Datos del evento
Nombre:
1.er Congreso Internacional de Escritura de Señas y Derechos Lingüísticos
Fechas:
21 al 24 de julio de 2026
Sede:
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Idiomas:
LSM, Libras, IntSL y español
💳 Información de pago
Banco: BBVA
Cuenta: 1551213039
CLABE: 012 180 01551213039 0
Concepto: Pago-CINTESMx + tu nombre completo
Plataforma Abierta de Innovación y Desarrollo de Jalisco (PLAi)
Ciudad Creativa Digital, Torre C
Calle Independencia 55
Zona Centro, Piso 2, Primer Complejo
C.P. 44100, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
https://maps.app.goo.gl/q2XoVX4n4EFST6Qy7
📢 CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA
Consulta la convocatoria oficial del
1.er Congreso Internacional de Escritura de Señas
En ella encontrarás información detallada sobre:
* Lineamientos de participación
* Envío de propuestas
* Modalidades de ponencia
* Fechas importantes
JULY 15-18, 2024 View LIVE presentations broadcast
on YouTube, Facebook & Even3 from
Brazil, Canada, Israel, Korea, Nicaragua,
Thailand & USA, in 4 days & 4 categories:
Come and participate with us in the launch of the bilingual children's book (Libras-SignWriting and Portuguese) entitled: "Telasco and his class in: "The legend of Manguda."
The event will take place in the auditorium of the Core of Technologies for Education (UEMAnet) of the Maranhão State University (UEMA), at 15:00 on November 09 (Thursday). The solemnity will also feature a live stream on YouTube platform, via the official UEMA channel.
The book reveals the mysteries surrounding the legend of Manguda in a fun way to be told by the Telasco gang made up of deaf characters, who are and were part of the local history, and were made into illustrations marked in Libra.
Dear Valerie: This book is for free. It's purpose is to help physicians and nurses and speech language pathologists to provide better health services to deaf people. SignWriting is part of this labor of love. It will always be. You'll always be in our hearts. Many blessings, dear friend.
Fernando Capovilla
Thank you so much, Fernando! Val ;-)
Video: Boa Noite, Zoológico,
em Libras Escrito em SignWriting.
Sinalizado por: Carlos Cristian de Paulo Silva ( Youtube - Sinais Diarios de Libras ) Transcrito por: Miguel de Castro Silva ( Youtube - Signwriting Legenda ) Revisão da escrita: Rubens Ramos de Alemeida ( Youtube - Escreva em Libras - Prof. Rubens )
posted January 10, 2022
E-Book em Libras in PDF in Brazilian Sign Language
Sutton Movement Writing & Shorthand is a way to read & write all body movement. It is a script with 5 parts: DanceWriting, SignWriting, MimeWriting, SportsWriting & MovementWriting. DanceWriting was invented by Valerie Sutton in 1972 followed by SignWriting in Denmark in 1974. The SignWriter Newspaper written in American Sign Language (ASL) was published 1981-1984. The SignWriter Computer Program, a sign language processor for typing SignWriting, began in 1986 by Richard Gleaves. The Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting (DAC), a team of Deaf ASL signers, was founded by Lucinda O'Grady in 1988. The DAC influenced the development of SignWriting, now used to write over 40 sign languages around the world. In 2004, software developer Stephen E Slevinski Jr began a collaboration with Valerie Sutton to develop web-based software and font encoding for the SignWriting Script. The collaboration continues in 2020. Slevinski developed SignPuddle software and the SignWriting TrueType Fonts, establishing the Sutton SignWriting Software Standard.
SignWriting
Web Site ...read,
write, and type
all Sign Languages...
Sign
Languages are
written languages!
SignWriting
Web Site
First Posting:
September, 1996
We want you to use it
and write with it freely.
We hope you enjoy
using the SignWriting Script!
You are WELCOME to
publish books, web sites
and other publications
using Sutton SignWriting,
under the
Creative Commons
Attribution-Share-Alike
License. Read about it here:
