Gesture or sign language seems to have been primitive, the elder sister of articulate speech.
A sign language is easier to invent than one of sounds; and, since it is mastered with greater facility, a presumption arises that it preceded articulate speech.
Gesture or sign language, as intimated by Lucretius,[1] must have preceded articulate language, as thought preceded speech.
At the time when the methods of instruction of the deaf were introduced into the first schools, the "sign language" was brought in as an essential part from France, where it had largely been formulated.
You have a sign language, as the flowers have, and you have a language of sounds that is even better than the bird language.
The birds, too, have a language of their own, and they can express themselves better than the flowers, for they have a sign language, and are also able to make sounds.
From Colonel Garrick Mallery's "Sign Language of the Indians of the Upper Missouri in 1832.
Less of practical value can be learned of sign language, considered as a system, from the study of gestures of actors and orators than would appear without reflection.
During the past two years the present writer has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language.
They require energy, variety, and precision, but also a degree of simplicity which is incompatible with the needs of sign language.
He made a study of Sign Language in order to furnish the Indians with a pictographic writing, based on diagrams of the signs, and meant to be read by all Indians, without regard to their speech.
The following are the chief printed works on Sign Language: =1823.
In 1900 I included a chapter on Sign Language in my projected Woodcraft Dictionary, and began by collecting all the literature.
Pointing to the Chinese writing as a model and parallel, he made a Sign Language font of 4,000 pictographic types for use in his projected works.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sign language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
