High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stokoe notation /?sto?ki?/ is the first (Kyle & Woll 1988:88 ff) phonemic script used for sign languages. It was created by William Stokoe for American Sign Language (ASL), with Latin letters and numerals used for the shapes they have in fingerspelling, and iconic glyphs to transcribe the position, movement, and orientation of the hands. It was first published as the organizing principle of A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, by Stokoe et al. 1960. In this dictionary, signs are themselves arranged alphabetically, according to their Stokoe transcription, rather than being ordered by their English glosses as in other sign-language dictionaries. This made it the only ASL dictionary where the reader could look up a sign without first knowing how to translate it into English. The Stokoe notation was later adapted to British Sign Language (BSL) in Kyle & Woll (1988) and to Australian Aboriginal sign languages in Kendon...