Yerkish

Yer·kish

[yur-kish]
noun
an experimental language for communicating with apes, using symbols consisting of geometric shapes.

Origin:
1970–75; Yerk(es) (Regional Primate Research Center, at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia) + -ish1

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