gesture language
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In gesture language, the gesture has to remain fairly imitative or expressive to be intelligible.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
Many arguments have been advanced to prove that gesture language preceded articulate speech and formed the earliest attempt at communication, resulting from the interacting subjective and objective conditions to which primitive man was exposed.
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
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.
