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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Fri Aug 20, 1999 2:37 pm Subject: Acronyms (one last time :-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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August 20, 1999 Dear SW List Members: We are now working on the application to the ISO for recognition of the world's signed languages. This is important for the standardization of the computerization of signed languages. Michael Everson came up with a good solution. By adding "sgn" (for sign) to the code for each country, we are able to refer to a signed language used in each country, without using any specific acronym. Since the popular acronyms are continually changing depending on which spoken language one is speaking, I think this was a very clever and diplomatic solution! Plus, Michael also devised a way to refer to dialects and several signed languages within one country. See his web page: https://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/deaf.html On the above web page, there is a column called "Acro.", showing the popular acronym that seems to be well-known and used throughout the world. Even though these acronyms will NOT be a part of computer programming, I think it is important to make that column as accurate as possible, as a general reference tool. So one more time, I am writing for the SignWriting List's advice. If the following acronyms were placed in the "Acro" column on the above web page, would you feel they are correct? I made the changes that you all suggested before. Any more feedback is appreciated. This is a shorter list. If you know of others, please tell me: American Sign Language = ASL Argentinian Sign Language = LSA Australian Sign Language = AUSLAN Austrian Sign Language = ÖGS Brazilian Sign Language = LIBRAS British Sign Language = BSL Danish Sign Language = DSL or DTS Dutch Sign Language = NGT French Canadian Sign Language = LSQ French Sign Language = LSF German Sign Language = DGS Hong Kong Sign Language = HKSL Indopakistan Sign Language = IPSL Irish Sign Language = ISL Italian Sign Language = LIS Japanese Sign Language = JSL Maltese Sign Language = LSMA Mexican Sign Language = LSM Nicaraguan Sign Language = ISN Norwegian Sign Language = NSL or NTS Spanish Sign Language = LSE Swedish Sign Language = SSL or STS Taiwan Sign Language = TSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie ;-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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