American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet Quiz

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American Sign Language Alphabet Quiz

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Created Feb 1, 2010 in Language
Featured Jul 1, 2012
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	Meltha:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 15:13 GMT		12 points
	I've generally seen U made with the index and middle fingers straight up, not angled, but maybe that's a "dialect" issue.

	Davidos:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 15:37 GMT		3 points
	I wish I knew sign language. It seems like a really cool way to communicate. Alas, all I got in this were the ones like W, L, and V that look like just like they do as written letters xD

	ChicagoGuy88:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 15:45 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz! I just wish I knew sign language better.

	cripple_creek:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 16:52 GMT		2 points
	I've always wondered how different British Sign Language is to ASL. Are they mutually intelligible? And in BSL: would you sign an "R" if it comes at the end of a word?

	bazmerelda:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 16:55 GMT		5 points
	@cripple_creek: ASL is completely different to BSL. American signers and British signers wouldn't understand each other. ASL does have a lot in common with French sign language though, so French and American signers can kind of understand each other, but not perfectly.

	Lprdgecko:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 17:17 GMT		1 point
	My 2nd grade teacher had us learn this... almost 14 years later, I still remember it... However, I was never 100% sure how to sign Q and X. Now I know! Thanks, Sporcle!

	MJRioux:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 17:45 GMT		2 points
	@bazmerelda If you think ASL and BSL are completely different, try JSL, Japanese sign language...makes my head spin. It is interesting how many people mistake literal English signing with ASL; it's a completely different language that relies heavily on facial/body expression.

	Zak6009:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 18:47 GMT		-2 points
	24/m/Mass. lol

	shel99:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 19:27 GMT		9 points
	I know these, but for some reason had a hard time visualizing the hand positions from the drawings. Had to run through the alphabet with my hands while doing the quiz to remind myself of some of them!

	tigerschick:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 19:41 GMT		1 point
	@cripple_creek - further to earlier comments, one major difference between these letters and the BSL ones is that most (excepting only C!) letters in BSL use both hands.

	rivertam42:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 20:40 GMT		5 points
	I never really got why "z" and "j" involve motion. It seems like they all should be stationary, if just for consistency.

	mallorn_hugger:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 20:47 GMT		1 point
	Ah! I used to know all of these. What happened to my brain? Oh, wait, I know: age + sporcle-itis.

	adhair:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 21:06 GMT		1 point
	rivertam42: probably because if we're already deaf, they don't want to compound it by making us break our fingers.

	sevy694:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 23:20 GMT		1 point
	I got this pretty easily since both my parents are fluent in ASL, but I did have to run through the alphabet once or twice because some of the pictures were a little hard to figure out. A lot of people think that sign language is a completely universal language, but it isn't. Apparently in Chinese sign language, the hands form the word's character. And as with anything, there are plenty of variations depending on where you're from. :)

	leftyfreak:	Jul 1st, 2012 at 23:24 GMT		1 point
	Am I the only one who mixes up R and X because the sign for R looks like an X and the sign for X looks like a lower-case R?

	singin185:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 01:02 GMT		1 point
	@leftyfreak: I've always thought that!

	theworryrock:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 01:21 GMT		2 points
	Huh, have I been making "n" wrong all these years? I thought it looked like an "m" but with your thumb in between your index and middle fingers...hmmm.

	Chimakwa:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 13:28 GMT		1 point
	@theworryrock: it's not necessarily "wrong" per se, and a lot of books do show it that way, but when you're fingerspelling quickly, N and M are more about the two/three fingers than what your thumb is doing.

	imawesome625:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 14:03 GMT		1 point
	@shel99 I had to too! These pictures are kinda confusing...but cool quiz!!!!

	Fex:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 18:09 GMT		1 point
	I know how to sign the alphabet in ASL, but I have now learned that I don't know what they actually look like! This was hard! Great quiz :)

	NeverTrustWhitey:	Jul 2nd, 2012 at 20:11 GMT		5 points
	How is "Z" not the most correctly answered one on this quiz?

	hbaker:	Jul 3rd, 2012 at 04:12 GMT		2 points
	@rivertam42: ASL (like all sign languages) is a language of motion, so z and j make perfect sense. It's hard to learn just from pictures, because pictures are stationary. If a signer is fingerspelling, for instance, she doesn't pause between each letter as if each letter were a still picture. The whole word is a series of motions, letters blending into other letters.

	RangersRangers:	Jul 3rd, 2012 at 04:16 GMT		1 point
	BSL (British SL) and ASL (American SL) are completely different from each other, as another poster said. This isn't even the BSL alphabet... their fingerspelling alphabet uses two hands. None of the letters are the same as the ASL alphabet. Auslan (Australian Sign Language) uses the same alphabet as BSL, although the actual languages differ. The sign language in each country has to do with the deaf community and the people who first decided to educate the deaf communities in that nation... hence, LSF (French Sign Language) and ASL are similar, while BSL and Auslan are similar.