months in asl

Table of Contents

• How do the months go?
• What is daughter in ASL?
• How do you sign the Year?

With your dominant hand, hold your hand up and have your palm facing forward and fingerspell J-A-N. With your dominant hand, hold your hand up and have your palm facing forward and fingerspell F-E-B. With your dominant hand, hold your hand up and have your palm facing forward and fingerspell M-A-R-C-H.

How do the months go?

The names of the 12 months in order are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.

Do you Fingerspell months?

The ASL signs for the months of a year are usually fingerspelled in abbreviation. Eg. JAN for January, FEB for February, MARCH for March, APRIL for April, MAY for May, JUN for June, JULY for July, AUG for August, SEPT for September, OCT for October, NOV for November, and DEC for December.

👉 For more insights, check out this resource.

What is Birthday ASL?

You take your dominant hand, with fingers open and middle finger extended forward. Touch your middle finger first to your chin and then to your chest.

👉 Discover more in this in-depth guide.

How do you sign age?

Age. To sign age, take your dominant hand to your chin while forming the modified ASL letter O sign. Then pull this ‘O’ hand straight down from your chin to your lower chest or stomach. This sign looks a lot like the sign for old.

What is daughter in ASL?

DAUGHTER: This sign is a combination of GIRL and BABY. Form your right hand into a “flat hand (looks like a “B-hand” or a Karate-chop hand). Touch the fingertips of your B-hand to the right side of your chin, then move the hand down to the crook of your left forearm.

How do you say one month in ASL?

While holding your non-dominant ‘1’ hand upright, take your dominant ‘1’ hand, lay it horizontally before the other hand, and move it down from the top of your non-dominant index finger till you reach the back of your non-dominant hand. It is as if you are pointing to one month on the grid of your calendar.

What is season in ASL?

To sign season, hold up your non-dominant hand flat and upright, with all fingers together. Then, forming your dominant hand into the ASL letter S sign, revolve it once beside your upright palm representing a clock, and end by sticking your fist to the palm.

How do you sign march?

March is signed by forming the ASL letter M sign with both hands, then moving them forward in unison in front of your body, in a staggered, regimented style. This would mimic all the legs of people marching together, whether for a band or parade.

How do you sign the Year?

The sign for “year” is made by forming both hands into the letter “S.” If you are right handed, rotate your right hand completely around the left. The right hand should come to rest on top of the left. YEAR: Memory aid: Think of the earth circling the sun in one year’s time.