gesture language
Example Sentences
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Whether they have any religious ideas it is impossible to say, all intercourse with the surrounding peoples being restricted to barter carried on with gesture language for nobody has ever yet mastered their tongue.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Since these arts were originally derived from gesture language, it is not strange that gesture and pantomime are the best means of preparing the child for these modes of communication.
From The Tree-Dwellers by Howard V. Brown
This is no imputation against the missionaries, as in October, 1880, five intelligent Ojibwas from Petoskey, Mich., told the writer that they had never heard of gesture language.
Raffaelle was equally particular in his exhibition of gesture language, even unto the minutest detail of the arrangement of the fingers.
He delivered his story, referring to one of the many incidents in his perilous life, orally, but with pantomimes so graphic and vivid that it may be presented truly as a specimen of gesture language.
