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Common Sign Language was a system of sign language used by deaf and mute people and those who learned it to communicate with them.[1]

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Common Sign Language shared signs and vocabulary with thieves' cant, enough that those who knew thieves' cant could discern the sign language.[1]

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Two members of the Avowed in Candlekeep communicated in Common Sign Language in the late 1400s DR.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Greg Marks; Anthony Joyce-Rivera, Carl Sibley (November 2021). When the Lights Went Out in Candlekeep (DDAL-DRW-EP-03) (PDF). Edited by Ashley Michalea Lawson. D&D Adventurers League: Dreams of the Red Wizards (Wizards of the Coast), p. 27.