It is not known to true science in which moment arose this one so particular language, but already at the end of the XVIIth century and principios of the XVIIIth it was used between the Spanish women, as it is testified by the investigations of the English poet Joseph Addison (Milton 1672-Kensington 1719) that travelled for Andalusia with the intention of studying it.

He was a polygraph and his work was consisting of compiling information on secret languages, different from the traditional writing and that, consequently, only were intelligible for whom they knew the keys of the same one.

He remained surprised at his largeness and complexity, since it was not possessing an unitary method, but he was adopting different ways in places and different nuclei from population: it was not the same thing in Seville that in Cadiz, was not even used equally in Malaga than in Huelva.

He found, nevertheless, seven movements that were repeating themselves of equal way in all the places where it came. Perhaps it was the last cinders of a primitive language. He could state that the men, as the women with his fans, could communicate also secretly realizing simple movements with his canes and imperceptible for the not initiated ones.

They will have curiosity to know some of these movements that can serve him, still in our days, to flirt and to communicate secretly with his dear one. Do not laugh. Try and it will see. The seduction is a universal language and the fan is a needle allied of the woman. In the full XIXth century it was said that he is the most fearsome accomplice of the affectionate fever who decides the future of a man. 

I could have thought up to 32 (sure that there are more) different positions with which to be able to "speak" using the fan, but I have serious doubts about the authenticity of many of them to which only I award them the value of the imagination of the one who designed them. Marriageable young people, unfaithful and single wives of any age were flirting with the gentlemen with imperceptible gestures along with the movements of his most faithful. silent and discreet