The problem with most sign languages is that they are hard to learn. It would be interesting to have a sign language that’s like Toki Pona in that it can be learned in a weekend.
It could likely also be a bit more efficient then Toki Pona by designed for being easy to learn. For the textual level words could sound like existing words the way Lojban choose the spelling of words where 60% of the sylables match sylables of related words in the 6 major languages of the world (numbers from memory).
There might be other things that could be done to make the language more efficient while staying with it’s small vocabulary.
In many cases such as having a side conversation while other people are speaking about opening the window, it might be completly fine to have a language with little expressibility for those exchanges.
The problem with most sign languages is that they are hard to learn. It would be interesting to have a sign language that’s like Toki Pona in that it can be learned in a weekend.
It could likely also be a bit more efficient then Toki Pona by designed for being easy to learn. For the textual level words could sound like existing words the way Lojban choose the spelling of words where 60% of the sylables match sylables of related words in the 6 major languages of the world (numbers from memory).
There might be other things that could be done to make the language more efficient while staying with it’s small vocabulary.
In many cases such as having a side conversation while other people are speaking about opening the window, it might be completly fine to have a language with little expressibility for those exchanges.