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Между прочим, у гномов, помимо кхуздула, был практически второй язык - язык жестов: "The Dwarves indeed, as later became known, had a far more elaborate and organized system. They possessed in fact a secondary tengwesta of gestures, concurrent with their spoken language, which they began to learn almost as soon as they began learning to speak. It should be said rather that they possessed a number of such gesture-codes; for unlike their spoken language, which remained astonishingly uniform and unchanged both in time and in locality, their gesture-codes varied greatly from community to community. And they were differently employed. Not for communication at a distance, for the Dwarves were short-sighted, but for secrecy and the exclusion of strangers...This 'gesture-language', or as they called it iglishmêk, the Dwarves were no more eager to teach than their own tongue. But they understood and respected the disinterested desire for knowledge, and some of the later Noldorin loremasters were allowed to learn enough of both their lambe (aglab) and their iglishmêk to understand their systems. " (из приложений к "Квэнди и Эльдар").
Настолько разработанной системы жестов не было даже у эльфов.
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