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31 de may. de 2024 · Sign language, any means of communication through bodily movements, especially of the hands and arms, used when spoken communication is impossible or not desirable. The practice is probably older than speech.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references to forms of communication using hand gestures date back as far as 5th century BC Greece.
28 de may. de 2019 · How monks helped invent sign language. Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago.
15 de feb. de 2021 · Sign language is now seen as the native communication and education method for deaf people. However, it wasn’t always this way. Even though sign language became commonly used, supporters of the oralism method believed the deaf must learn spoken language to fully function in hearing society.
Here I present the development of the history of the study of sign languages in three stages: the origin, the beginning and their course, and finally the scope.
- Miroslava Cruz-Aldrete
- 2010
Until the 19th century, most of what is known about historical sign languages is limited to the manual alphabets (fingerspelling systems) that were invented to facilitate the transfer of words from a spoken language to a sign language, rather than documentation of the language itself.
Key aspects of this discussion include homesigns and sign systems used in small scale societies with significant numbers of deaf members; the earliest evidence for deaf communities with sign languages; the origin of Langue des Signes Française and ASL; and the origin and elaboration of Nicaraguan Sign Language, especially with respect to what ...
