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Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Aug 19, 1999 6:03 pm Subject: Re: Swedish Sign Language | |
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>I have a question. I was wondering if anyone out there is familiar at all >with Swedish Sign Language. I'm wondering how similar it is to spoken >Swedish. If anyone has any info I'd be grateful. > >Thanks, >Dawn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ August 19, 1999 Hello Dawn and SW List Members... Although I am no expert on Swedish Sign Language, while I lived in Denmark I met some Swedish Deaf people, and Swedish Sign Language seemed like a very different and distinct signed language to me. Of course, within languages and countries there are many dialects, and more people travel today, so there are signs that are used on the international scene that most Deaf people understand. But when Swedish Deaf people sign amongst themselves, it is my guess that it is a very different language than spoken Swedish. As you know, our SignWriter Computer Program offers Fingerspelling Keyboards from different countries, and one of them is the Swedish Fingerspelling Keyboard. The keyboard they requested was based on pictures of the "old Swedish Fingerspelling" and it was very very different, than the Fingerspelling in Denmark for example, which is a modern "internationalized" manual alphabet. The old Swedish Fingerspelling includes some very difficult and unusual handshapes. I would suggest visiting this web site for more information about Swedish Sign Language: International Bibliography of Sign Language published by the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf, University of Hamburg https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/Bibweb/F-Keywords.html They have an extensive listing on different publications about Swedish Sign Language, but here are some of them: "Swedish Sign Language dictionaries: 1. Sveriges Dövas Riksförbund (SDR): Teckenordbok. Borlänge : SDR 1971 - 103 p. 2. Sveriges Dövas Riksförbund (SDR) (ed): Teckenboken. Leksand : SDR 1978 - 221 p. 3. Hedberg, Tomas: Personentecken. Deras härkomst, bildningssätt och användning. (Forskning om Teckenspråk; XVI) Stockholm 1989 Notice the name Tomas Hedberg above... Tomas learned SignWriting in Copenhagen with me in 1990...after his dictionary was published...so there is no SignWriting in the above three dictionaries. Meanwhile...if you search under "Sutton" you will find 45 old SignWriting publications listed - some of them I had forgotten myself! Best - Valerie ;-) |
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