Question

Character-based languages like Chinese, Japanese or Korean use visual symbols to represent whole words rather than spelling out words with letters like we do in English. Why might it be easier to develop a form of sign language based on a character-based language rather than from words in a language like English that uses several individual letters to create words?

Answer 1

I wouldn't say it's necessarily easier to make sign language based off of our characters but it would be more efficient in some areas

because there's a technique we have here in China called Stroke

basically it is brush writing it would be fairly easy to make a sign language system based off of this because of the fluid motion