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).
and 29 Related for: Monastic sign languages information
Monasticsignlanguages have been used in Europe from at least the 10th century by Christian monks, and some, such as Cistercian and Trappist sign, are...
the alphabet. Signs can also represent complete ideas or phrases, not only individual words. Most signlanguages are natural languages, different in construction...
village signlanguages, shared with the hearing community, and Deaf-community signlanguages Auxiliary signlanguages, which are not native languages but...
Signlanguages (also known as signedlanguages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...
by body language and facial expressions. Manual communication is employed in signlanguages and manually coded languages, though signlanguages also possess...
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious...
is considered evil and is forbidden. A Trappist signlanguage, one of several monasticsignlanguages, was developed to render speaking unnecessary. Meals...
Muzaffargarh railway station, Pakistan mzg, the ISO 639-3 code for Monasticsignlanguages, Europe This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
The monastic community of Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox community of monks in Greece who hold the status of an autonomous region with its own sovereignty...
Cistercian monasteries Monasticsignlanguages Oxford English Dictionary (1989). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed., 1992. Butler...
languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and Bhutanese SignLanguage...
ISBN 9781609250584. Sherlock, David; Zajac, William. "A Fourteenth-Century MonasticSign List From Bury St Edmunds Abbey". Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute...
respective Christian denominations that have forms of monastic living. Those living the monastic life are known by the generic terms monks (men) and nuns...
Retrieved 2020-07-08. Martène, Edmond (1987), "De Silentio & Signis", MonasticSignLanguages, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 421–428, doi:10.1515/9783110865028...
Sino-Tibetan languages, of which Burmese is the most widely spoken of the non-Sinitic languages. Burmese was the fifth of the Sino-Tibetan languages to develop...
Thorn in 1466, the extant territory of its Prussian branch became known as Monastic Prussia (Polish: Prusy zakonne) or Teutonic Prussia (Polish: Prusy krzyżackie)...
languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were regionally important. Latin was the original language of the Romans and remained the language...
Monastic silence is a spiritual practice recommended in a variety of religious traditions for purposes including becoming closer to God and achieving elevated...
ending up for non-monastic clergy as generally consisting of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair at first tonsure in the Sign of the Cross and in...
Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative...
minority languages. As of 2019[update], around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia...
practices and theology. Local "congregations" were centred in the monastic community and monastic leaders were more like chieftains, as peers, rather than in...
nun is typically used for female monastics. Although the term monachos is of Christian origin, in the English language monk tends to be used loosely also...
belongs to the East Scandinavian languages, together with Danish, separating it from the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Faroese, Icelandic...
necessarily resemble them in cut, colour, material, detail or use. In Christian monastic orders of the Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Churches, the habit often...
with a monastic tradition where the monks, titled as Abba, lived separated from the Jewish villages in monasteries. This collective monastic tradition...
Global Information
