Both systems are meant for use by linguistics, and include details such as phonemes leading to long, complex segments.HamNoSys can depict most sign languages, so the notation system is used internationally in research settings.Notable universities doing research with the writing system are major institutions in Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Germany.[3] HamNoSys was the original writing system used in the SiGML (Signing Gesture Mark-up Language).[5] A single sign is expressed by a series of symbols that contain various optional and required parameters in the order listed: ^b Denotes the number (if known) of languages within the family.