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Re: NonVerbal Conlang?

From:Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...>
Date:Saturday, June 24, 2006, 21:11
>From: Scotto Hlad > >I'd be though in time you could have. >Are there any instances of languages that combine spoken word and gestures? >Scott >
David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series features a (minor player) alien race, called the Medusans, that does just that. In one of the later books, a human character is describing the difficult process of learning to communicating with them. Their language is actually comprised of three components: sound, gesture, and scent emissions. The sound portion was rather difficult to deal with, since these aliens could speak and hear in frequencies outside of the normal human range. Gesture was even more problematic, because that race happened to have three arms ... then of course smell couldn't really be dealt with at all for any human speakers, but the aliens used it for emphasis only.

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