Sign language

Sign language is a language designed for communicating with deaf and mute people that uses hand signals. In mainstream Smurfs media, it first appeared in the cartoon show episode "Smurfing In Sign Language" with the debut of the mute woodelf character Laconia, who has taught the other Smurfs how to communicate in sign language. In the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, Empath himself learned how to speak in sign language.