Not all people who are deaf participate in Deaf culture, just as not all people born Jewish participate in Jewish culture. Deafness is invisible. Be careful not to stereotype people. Deaf people differ from each other as much as hearing people do. Hearing people supplement their spoken words with voice tone and inflection, facial expression and hand gestures.
Most deaf people use sign language and fingerspelling.
Some prefer to lipread and use their voices. Many use a combination of these methods. Sign language is a visual language using a combination of hand movements and hand shapes to represent concepts, letters and words. It is cherished by the Deaf community for its beauty and ease of expressing and receiving both complex and abstract concepts. Slight pauses indicate the end of a word.