As is known, since the construction of the Tower of Babel, communication between peoples has become somewhat more complicated due to the emergence of significant differences in colloquial speech.
As the legend goes, the lack of coordination in the actions forced the world population to abandon this idea.
But, as researchers at Georgia State University discovered, there is only one language left in the world that is “spoken” by people on all continents – sign language.
Non-verbal language, also known as sign language (not to be confused with sign language), can be an international language.
These are the conclusions reached by scientists who conducted research among young children and blind people.
They all used the same gestures, even though they spoke different languages.
Researchers believe that, regardless of nationality and language skills, people in different countries and continents make the same movements when explaining something using gestures.
A series of experiments were conducted, among others, with children aged 3 to 12 years from the United States and Turkey. The languages were chosen deliberately to exclude accidental coincidences.
The children had to explain the same event using gestures.
The difference was observed when, along with gestures, the children explained the course of events in words.
But when they explained without words, the gestures were the same, simple and laconic.
Similar conclusions were reached when the experiment was repeated with adults, including those with vision problems, who were unable to see other people's gestures.
Scientists noticed that many of the gestures were similar to those used by deaf children in everyday communication.
This means that there may be a universal system of gestures in the world, with the help of which people can communicate with each other regardless of language, as well as hearing or vision problems. Scientists intend to test this assumption in the near future.
