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...

the alphabet. Signs can also represent complete ideas or phrases, not only individual words. Most sign languages are natural languages, different in construction...

village sign languages, shared with the hearing community, and Deaf-community sign languages Auxiliary sign languages, which are not native languages but...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

Sign Language (LSF, from langue des signes française) or Francosign family is a language family of sign languages which includes French Sign Language...

by body language and facial expressions. Manual communication is employed in sign languages and manually coded languages, though sign languages also possess...

Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious...

not directly related to the sign languages of Europe, though it may have historical connections to monastic sign language. It developed under marriage...

Monastic sign languages used throughout medieval Europe used manual alphabets as well as signs, and were capable of representing a written language,...

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is considered evil and is forbidden. A Trappist sign language, one of several monastic sign languages, was developed to render speaking unnecessary. Meals...

Muzaffargarh railway station, Pakistan mzg, the ISO 639-3 code for Monastic sign languages, 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 Monastic sign languages Oxford English Dictionary (1989). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed., 1992. Butler...

ISBN 9781609250584. Sherlock, David; Zajac, William. "A Fourteenth-Century Monastic Sign List From Bury St Edmunds Abbey". Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute...

dozen languages of Bhutan, all members of the Tibeto-Burman language family except for Nepali, which is an Indo-Aryan language, and the Bhutanese Sign Language...

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", Monastic Sign Languages, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 421–428, doi:10.1515/9783110865028...

Thorn in 1466, the extant territory of its Prussian branch became known as Monastic Prussia (Polish: Prusy zakonne) or Teutonic Prussia (Polish: Prusy krzyżackie)...

Monastic silence is a spiritual practice recommended in a variety of religious traditions for purposes including becoming closer to God and achieving elevated...

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...

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...

languages of the Roman Empire, but other languages were regionally important. Latin was the original language of the Romans and remained the language...

This is a list of languages arranged by age of the oldest existing text recording a complete sentence in the language. It does not include undeciphered...

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...

practices and theology. Local "congregations" were centred in the monastic community and monastic leaders were more like chieftains, as peers, rather than in...

minority languages. As of 2019[update], around 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as the official script for their national languages, with Russia...

belongs to the East Scandinavian languages, together with Danish, separating it from the West Scandinavian languages, consisting of Faroese, Icelandic...

Church, the process of becoming a monk or nun is intentionally slow, as the monastic vows taken are considered to entail a lifelong commitment to God, and are...

necessarily resemble them in cut, colour, material, detail or use. In Christian monastic orders of the Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Churches, the habit often...