Monastic sign languages have been used in Europe from at least the 10th century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are...
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the alphabet. Signs can also represent complete ideas or phrases, not only individual words. Most sign languages are natural languages, different in construction...
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village sign languages, shared with the hearing community, and Deaf-community sign languages Auxiliary sign languages, which are not native languages but...
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Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
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Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...
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Manual communication (redirect from Hand sign)
by body language and facial expressions. Manual communication is employed in sign languages and manually coded languages, though sign languages also possess...
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Monasticism (redirect from Monastic order)
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious...
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not directly related to the sign languages of Europe, though it may have historical connections to monastic sign language. It developed under marriage...
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Monastic sign languages used throughout medieval Europe used manual alphabets as well as signs, and were capable of representing a written language,...
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Trappista cheese Trappist Dairy (Hong Kong) Limited Trappist Sign Language, monastic sign language used by Trappists Trapper (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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