Signal language
As a signal language to a designated human communication serves but not linguistic sign system . As examples, flags or light signals can be cited, which are used for communication on airfields or at sea.
Differentiation from signal languages
There are languages that are produced in some other way instead of with sounds or letters, but are nonetheless natural languages , for example in the case of sign languages . Another way of representing linguistic characters is Morse code , which only uses Morse code instead of letters.
See also
literature
- Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 4th, updated and revised edition, keyword: "signal language". Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010. ISBN 978-3-476-02335-3 .
- Eike von Savigny : The signal language used by drivers. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv-Wissenschaft series), Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-04358-X .
Web links
Wiktionary: Signal language - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations