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Manual communication
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Manual communication systems use articulation of the hands (hand signs, gestures) to mediate a message between persons. Being expressed manually, they are received visually, and sometimes tactually (see tactile signing). Manual communication, when it is a primary form of communication, may be enhanced by body language and facial expressions and other forms of communication.
Manual communication is employed in systems that are codes for spoken languages (see Manually Coded Language), and with natural languages, such as in sign languages.
Other, simpler forms of manual communication have also been developed. They are neither natural languages nor even a code that can fully render one. They communicate with a very limited set of signals about an even smaller set of topics and have been developed for situations where speech is not practical or permitted, or secrecy is desired.
- Some cloistered religious communities (see Monastic sign language)
- While scuba diving (see Diving signal)
- In television recording studios
- In loud environments (such as a stock exchange, marketplaces (finger counting), sawmill, or at a horse race - see tic-tac)
- When signalling across distance to a crane driver, ship or plane (see semaphore).
- While hunting (see Kalahari bushmen)
- In the game Charades
- In Rueda de Casino
- In combat where stealth or noise makes other forms of communication impractical.
- Between lifeguards
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| Friendly gestures | A-ok · Air kiss · Big up · Cheek kissing · Dap greeting · Thumbs up · Fist pound · Namaste · High five |  |
| Formal gestures | Bowing · Curtsey · Hand-kissing · Genuflection · Pranam | |
| Salutes | Salute · Bellamy salute · Final Salute · Hitler salute · Roman salute · Royal Salute · Scout sign and salute · Three-finger salute · Two-finger salute | |
| Celebration gestures | Applause · Fist pump · Gator Chomp · Gig 'em Aggies · High five / Gimme five · Hook 'em Horns · Tomahawk Chop | |
| Obscene gestures | Bowfinger · Corna · Finger · Mooning · Shocker · Moutza | |
| Other | Air quotes · Anasyrma · Articulatory gestures · Crossed fingers · Gang signal · Hand gesture · Head bobble · Jazz hands · Lock and fly · Manual communication · Mudra · Nod · Poke · Pollice verso · Puppy face · Raised fist · Shaka sign / Hang loose · Shrug · Sign of the Cross · Thai greeting · Type of gesture · Varadamudra · V sign · Vulcan salute · War Chant · | |
| List of gestures | ||