SIGN LANGUAGE NOTATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

In this paper we describe gestures and sign language as means of non-verbal communication of people with hearing loss. We give a brief overview of existing sign language notations on currently, designed to depict gestures in a written form using in them alphabetic, digital and various graphic elements is given. We present comparative analysis of their sign language notations in accordance with their characteristics as applied to the description of Russian sign language. We argue that SignWriting system, modified for our needs, is a good choice to record Russian sign language. We describe features of the SignWriting system are described, the unified signs and rules of which allow the most compact and accurate fixation of the space-time form of gestures for the deaf. We created a dictionary of the most common gestures of Russian sign language of various topics; the dictionary is given in a written form using signs of SignWriting system.

Keywords

• Gestures
• speech sign language
• Russian sign language
• written form sign language
• notations
• SignWriting system