Traditional Inuit beliefs are bound up in the spiritual web of humans interacting with animals interacting with the environment. Their belief system reflects a deep love and respect for their world and environment.
The knowledge and ability to recognize that words are made up of a combination of individual speech sounds. phonics A body of knowledge consisting of 26 letters used to symbolize 44 English speech sounds.
It is important to note that manual gesture in the sense of communicative co-speech gesture does not include the gesture-signs of Sign Languages, even though sign language is communicative and primarily produced using the hands, because the gestures in Sign Language are not used to intensify or modify the speech produced by the vocal tract, rather they communicate fully productive language through a method alternative to the vocal tract.