English
SignWritingSignWriting
Compound of sign + writing.
A compound of sign + writing
Proto-Italic *segnom
Latin signum ‘a mark’
Old English seġn ‘sign’
Middle English signe
English sign
Proto-Germanic *wrītaną ‘to scratch’
Proto-West Germanic *wrītan ‘to scratch’
Old English wrītan ‘to write’
Old English wrīting
Middle English writing
English writing
The story
The writing system was invented in 1974 by Valerie Sutton.
Today it means
name An iconic writing system used to depict sign languages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / SignWriting
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