I say "might speak," for though totem names have the advantage of being easily indicated, and in practice are often indicated by gesture language, I take it that by this time man had evolved language.
If gesture language was prior to spoken language, in each case gesture names could be employed, as, in North America, totem names are to this day expressed in gesture language.
I see no reason why early articulate-speaking men (or even men whose language is gesture language) should be so modern as to lack all sense of humour, all delight in derision.
Raffaelle was equally particular in his exhibition of gesture language, even unto the minutest detail of the arrangement of the fingers.
Gesture language is, in fact, not only a picture language, but is actual writing, though dissolving and sympathetic, and neither alphabetic nor phonetic.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gesture language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
