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Observations on the Use of Manual Signs and Gestures in the Communicative Interactions between Native Americans and Spanish Explorers of North America: The Accounts of Bernal Diaz del Castillo and Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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Bonvillian, John D.; Ingram, Vicky L.; McCleary, Brendan M. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
The accounts of two men who participated in several Spanish-led expeditions to the New World in the early 1500s document the frequent use of manual signs and gestures in the initial interactions between European explorers and the indigenous peoples of North America. Bernal Diaz del Castillo described the events that occurred during three…
Descriptors: American Indians, Foreign Countries, North Americans, Observation
Meemul Tziij: An Indigenous Sign Language Complex of Mesoamerica
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Tree, Erich Fox – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article examines sign languages that belong to a complex of indigenous sign languages in Mesoamerica that K'iche'an Maya people of Guatemala refer to collectively as Meemul Tziij. It explains the relationship between the Meemul Tziij variety of the Yukatek Maya village of Chican (state of Yucatan, Mexico) and the hitherto undescribed Meemul…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Maya (People), Sign Language, Foreign Countries