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

• Sign language

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