gesture language
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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
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.
Primitive man depended largely upon gesture language, and the placing of the hand over the heart is universally understood to signify love and fidelity.
From The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott
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.
Ercole only answered by raising his head and throwing out his chin, which means "no" in gesture language.
From Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
