Re: NonVerbal Conlang?

When I was in university in the last millenium, I had a friend who was an
interpreter for the deaf in her church. She always had me speak the sign at
the same time. That someone developed a system of glyphs to match the signs
was fascinating to me given that ASL is considered a language in its own
right.
S

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On 6/23/06, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
> I'd be though in time you could have.
.... huh?

> Are there any instances of languages that combine spoken word and
gestures?

In ASL, there's something called "sim-com" [simultaneous
communication; sign is S right / C left, out/back alternating at chin
level], which is when you speak and sign the same thing in both modes
simultaneously - mainly used in normal life by interpreters when
talking to mixed hearing/deaf audience, or by some deaf / HOH people
when talking to bad signers (like me :-P) who might need the verbal
AND signing cues to follow along. Originally it's an instructional
technique though, for training lipreading IIRC.

I don't know of any ASL usage that involves DIFFERENT information in
each mode, or anything more complicated than very basic gestural
additions to speech...

It is one thing I'd be very interested in, though; optimized
multi-modal communication is one of my desiderata.

 - Sai