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The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System (HamNoSys) is a transcription system for all sign languages (including American Sign Language). It has a direct correspondence between symbols and gesture aspects, such as hand location, shape and movement.[1] It was developed in 1984 at the University of Hamburg, Germany.[2] As of 2020,[update] it is in its fourth revision.
Though it has roots in Stokoe notation, HamNoSys does not identify with any specific national diversified fingerspelling system, and as such is intended for a wider range of applications than Stokoe[2] which was designed specifically for ASL and only later adapted to other sign languages.
Unlike SignWriting and the Stokoe system, it is not intended as a practical writing system, and is mainly used to describe the nuances of a single sign. It's more like the International Phonetic Alphabet in that regard. Both systems are meant for use by linguistics, and include details such as phonemes leading to long, complex segments.
The HamNoSys is not encoded in Unicode. Computer processing is made possible by a HamNoSysUnicode.ttf font, which uses Private Use Area characters.
HamNoSysUnicode.ttf
HamNoSys can depict most sign languages, so the notation system is used internationally in research settings. Notable universities doing research with the writing system are major institutions in Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, and Germany.[3] Several sign language resources have been published with HamNoSys transcriptions of citation forms of individual signs, such as the Public DGS Corpus, the Corpus-based Dictionary of Polish Sign Language and Dictio.[4]
HamNoSys is also the basis for the Signing Gesture Mark-up Language (SiGML), an XML notation for the description of sign language phonetics.[5] SiGML is intended as a machine-readable phonetic representation for natural language processing applications such as 3D rendered signing avatars.[6]
The script includes almost 200 symbols and utilizes subscripts, superscripts, and diacritics. There are five categories of characters used in HamNoSys, which, when put together, describe a sign.[7] A single sign is expressed by a series of symbols that contain various optional and required parameters in the order listed:
^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family. No further information is given on these languages.
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