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| Monastic Sign | |
|---|---|
| Region | Europe |
Native speakers | None[1] |
(sign lexicons) | |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzg |
mzg | |
| Glottolog | mona1241 |
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 still in use today—not only in Europe, but also in Japan, China and the USA.[2] Unlike deaf sign languages, they are better understood as forms of symbolic gestural communication rather than languages, and some writers have preferred to describe them as sign lexicons.[3]
- ^ Monastic sign languages at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ *Cistercian : Barakat, Robert. (1975). Cistercian sign language: A study in non-verbal communication. Cistercian Studies Series, 7. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. ISBN 0-87907-811-1
*Trappist : Quay, Suzanne. (2001). Signs of Silence: Two Examples of Trappist Sign Language in the Far East. Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses, Vol. 52 (3-4), pp. 211-230 - ^ Barley, Nigel F. (1974). Two Anglo-Saxon sign systems compared. Semiotica, 12, 227–237. (see pp. 234–35 on this point).
