Signwriting's thesaurus is very large. It consists of 425 basic symbols, split in 60 groups from 10 categories. Each basic symbol can have 4 different representations, 6 different fillings and 16 different spatial rotations.
Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle. 2004. Computer Support for SignWriting Written Form of Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication, pages 109–110, Lisbon, Portugal. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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@inproceedings{aznar:04022:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Aznar, Guylhem and Dalle, Patrice},
title = {Computer Support for {SignWriting} Written Form of Sign Language},
pages = {109--110},
editor = {Streiter, Oliver and Vettori, Chiara},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2004} Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From {SignWriting} to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication},
maintitle = {4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2004)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Lisbon, Portugal},
day = {30},
month = may,
year = {2004},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/04022.pdf}
}