Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2015-12/Entry name: sign languages/diffASGN

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Entry names

Some sign language dictionaries organize signs according to English glosses. Readers must know a sign's meaning in order to locate its entry in such a dictionary. To serve the reader who has encountered a sign but does not know its meaning, the English Wiktionary gives each sign entry name as a rough description of postures, holds, and moves of one or two hands. Each such posture, hold, and move is separated from the others by a space and is itself divided into phonemes:

  • Handshape@Location-Facing: A posture of the dominant hand. That is, its handshape, location, and facing/orientation.
  • DominantHandshape@Location-Facing-NondominantHandshape@Location-Facing: A posture of both hands. That is, their handshapes, locations, and facing/orientations.
  • Move: The dominant hand moves from one posture to the next. The nondominant hand is not in use.
  • (DominantHandMove)-NondominantHandMove: The nondominant hand moves from the previous posture to the next.

When multiple signs are transcribed with the same title, they are treated like homographs, and each gets its own complete entry on that page.

The "Sign gloss:" namespace links to these entries using glosses as the page names: Sign gloss:FOOD links to the ASL entry FlatO@Mouth-PalmBack.

References

  1. ^ Liddell and Johnson use the symbol ">", which cannot be used in Wiktionary entry titles for technical reasons.
  2. ^ Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2015-12/Entry name: sign languages