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Manual Signs & Gestures - Coggle Diagram
Manual Signs & Gestures
Early European Settlement
The Inuit people and the Europeans could not communicate, they did not know each other's language
Records show that the Inuit people and the Europeans used some gestures and some manual signs
The French and Spanish traveled to Baffin Island and encountered the Inuit people.
manual gestures and signs allowed for a little communication, but it was still limited
Manual Signs and Gestures
Signs allowed for communication between the different Native nations.
The Native American nations all spoke different languages and often could not communicate between each other.
Mallery conducted research on the Native's people use of gestures.
Advantages of gestures and signs
new signs were created for the purposes of communication during voyage - but there is no record
signs allowed for communication - the Inuit distrusted the English language
the Inuit tribe helped the voyagers settle and survive
in turn, the settlers abused the Inuit and took advantage of them
Manual signs and gestures allowed the Native nations to hunt without alarming the animals.
preachers and performers during the Middle Ages utilized signs
preachers would expand on their message by using signs and gestures
mime performances were popular form of entertainment
Takeaways
The Inuit primarily used manual signs for purposes of hunting
different Native groups accepted manual communication as a normal, regular form of communication
some manual gestures were primarily used for intertribal communication (North American)
early European settlers benefitted from the use of manual languages
early settlers perhaps would not have been successful without manual languages
signed languages have existed as far back as 1577 in North America