Italian Hand Gestures: A Short History | The New York Times

I am Arabic and I understood most of the gestures I feel like talking without gestures Just feels weird or wrong for some reason

Everyone do hand gesture . Also Americans . I don’t get all this attention to that

It definitely isn't blood, rather a way to show the meaning of words that varied between places. I'm fluent in Italian but I stand out for never using gestures (we Cherokee don't move our hands around much, as it's viewed as threatening.)

I wonder if Italian Sign Language is based off these gestures or how closely they match. I don’t know how many deaf Italians fluent in English are in the comments who could answer this.
I’m also pretty sure the gestures are regional-specific.

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You are mistaken ,not just Italians
All mideteranians do justure while speaking .

MAMMA MIA GESHIKKE RIJA!!

Odds are that given enough context you can communicate using only hands without saying a word

Everyone talks with hand gestures. Italians are just more expressive

berlusconi can gesture even more with his 11th finger LOL

In realtà noi italiani parliamo con le mani, utilizziamo la voce per riconfermare ciò che abbiamo espresso con le mani

we have the same gestures in Greece

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Gives you flare and charisma

In Greece we also have many hand gestures, some of them common with our Italian neighbors, some of them different. But I can totally relate to this video as a concept. We are Mediterraneans after all!

I am italian and for me it's natural use my hands a lot. I can communicate certain ideas and concepts that are sometimes abstract or related to the artistic world. But it is not only this, it is precisely that I instinctively gesticulate regardless of the speech and of the situations.

I talk with my hands all the time. My husband will smile and laugh a little when my hand goes up the air and makes a swirly motion while I’m describing something. I use my hands while I sing too. I feel like it may be an easier way to talk instead of just using words.

It looks stupid when done too much.

So, does Donald Trump have Italian root? I'm suspicious

If Italians can talk with their hands, then why don’t they ever shut their mouths?

This is something you see in Mediterranean culture in general and it has passed down to Latin America via its Spanish historical heritage...someone from Latin America is completely comfortable with this.

That's all completely false, there isn't any hand language

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“Some things really shouldn’t be expressed in words”
Wow that’s deep

Amazing how this has carried over to the U.S whether you have Italian ancestry or not.

Il più bello di tutti si fa con le dita semi chiuse con il palmo rivolto verso il basso, e si devono creare dei piccoli cerchi...quello significa "a umma umma"..😃😃😃😄😄😄

Me encanta el Italiano. . Perfecto como dise la señora seria para mi shhh callados😊😉 zip it😁😊

Unique

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It's not really in the blood I'm the son of a immigrant in Italy and I use hand gestures regulerly

So, if you want to kept an italian from speaking or yells help, you just tied his/her hands? No need of mouth gag?

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Italian same like indian, like moving hand while talking. I think italian and indian had same dna

So, basically Italians know what their countrymen speak even from miles away by just reading their hand gestures? Impressive!

Don't call an Italian if you know they are driving..... I lived in Milan, believe me

With so many dialects sometime it`s necessary

Even Russian talk with hand gestures

Anche in Argentina

talking hands. Paradise for deaf people !

Indians also do gestures but its funny hmmmmm

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Are there any introverts in Italy?

If Italian Sign Language copied some of these gestures into their signs, deaf people who uses it might understand some of the conversation... right?

Oh for heaven's sakes, Italians are not the only ones who use hand gestures when speaking. Hispanics has been doing it for years also. I'm Puertorican, and I use hand gestures.

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Japanese = Kagebunshin no jutsu ?

In my culture, speaking with hands is considered as rude, offensive and disrespectful. We were taught to put our hands down whenever we talk to people. It's so weird to see that people from other side of the world do this even without realizing it😂

Everyone does this.

È chiaro che usare il corpo per "aiutare" la comprensione del "discorso" era necessario. In Italia, paese dai mille dialetti e lingue fu obbligatorio codificare anche il "gesto" come parte del discorso. La necessità aguzza l'ingegno. Se negli altri Paesi questo sistema non si è generato è stato perché avevano raggiunto lo "standard" linguistico prima di noi. Stessa cosa possiamo dire per la nostra "varietà" culinaria. Buongiorno da Roma.