Re: NonVerbal Conlang?

>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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