Holiday Fingerspelling Test

As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to make some themed fingerspelling tests. I’ve always enjoyed reading fingerspelling. Being as I do not know how to read any spoken languages other than English, I believe reading fingerspelling is the closest I can get to doing just that.

If you need to brush up on your fingerspelling skills check out my ASL Fingerspelling Sign Language Letters post. And, as always, if you need quick help to confirm a fingerspelling sign simply hover your mouse over the image and the popup tooltip will let you know which letter it represents.

Holiday Fingerspelling Test – Word 1

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ASL Fingerspelling Sign Language Letters

Here are the 26 Fingerspelling Sign Language Letters. You can use these letter signs to spell out sign language signs that you may not know, or to spell proper nouns for which there is no specific sign. Quite often I will make use of fingerspelling to ask a more experienced signer how to perform a specific sign.

Fingerspelling in American Sign Language is a very useful tool. Even if you have no other knowledge of sign language, you can still communicate with deaf individuals, or anyone else for that matter, as long as they also know how to fingerspell.

ASL Fingerspelling Test

To find out if you are correct, hover over the images above and the popup tooltip will tell you which letter each image represents.

Here’s a longer one for you to try out. (one word)



I will post more of these fingerspelling tests from time to time, I’m thinking I will do themed posts of about 10 words on a specific topic. Also, I will be posting about numbers soon. Check back!

My goals for EasyASL.com

My goal is to make EasyASL.com a useful resource for anyone that would like to learn or extend their knowledge of ASL (American Sign Language). If you have a loved one or friend who is deaf or has decreased hearing, American Sign Language may be your only choice for communicating with him or her. American Sign Langauge, also referred to as ASL, is a language expressed by visible hand gestures. ASL contains phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics just like spoken languages.

ASL Fingerspelling

One aspect of ASL is fingerspelling. In ASL, fingerspelling is as it sounds, you use the fingers of one hand to form symbols and gestures that represent the letters of the alphabet. Fingerspelling is used to spell out words, such as proper nouns, or for emphasis. Sometimes it is necessary to gain clarification. For instance, if I’m evern uncertain of a sign, I may ask a deaf friend how to sign a word. By fingerspelling the word to them, they were then easily able to give me an answer. There are certainly other circumstances in which it could be useful to fingerspell, these are simply the most common usages I have for fingerspelling. You can view the ASL manual alphabet that is used for fingerspelling on wikipedia.

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