11:
12:
13:
14: tuck the thumb in
15:
Note: The number 15 is done palm back just like numbers 11-14. I'm
just showing it from behind here so you can see the thumb placement.
Another view:
Numbers16-19 start palm back and twist forward twice. Some people so a combination of 10+6, 10+7, 10+8, and 10+9 to show 16 through 19. I prefer to hold the 6 facing backward then twist it forward twice. (Same for 17 -19).
16:
17:
18
19:
20:
Questions and answers about numbers 11-20:
Nicola: When signing 11, do you just move the
index finger up once, or twice?
Bill: I do it twice.
Student: I don't understand how to do # 16 and on. Do I move my right or my
left hand. That's my only trouble.
Bill: Numbers change from region to region so check with your local deaf
person. The number 16 - 19 can be done a couple different ways. You use your
right hand if you are right handed.
Student: Do I move my right towards my left?
Bill: No. Let me go over 16 and up. There are generally two ways to do these
numbers. To sign "16" you can make a ten and then a six. Or you can take the
number six, starting palm backward, twist it forward twice in a small quick
motion, ending with the palm mostly outward (toward the watcher).
It is the same with 17 - 19. (For 17 you would "twist" the number 7.
Eighteen would use an 8, and nineteen would use a "9.")
Student: Okay, thanks!
The number 20 looks like the letter g with the index and thumb closing
together a couple times.
11-15 use a palm back position
BillVicars: Do you know the sign for "understand"?
Scoots55: touch the forehead with a index finger and snap out...something
like that
BillVicars: Right okay, (some people touch the forehead with the back of the
thumbnail of the right hand just before they flick the index finger
up...some don't actually touch--they just hold the cocked finger near the
forehead.)
This sign is similar to the handshape and
movement (but not the location) for the
sign 11.
I cock the tip of my index on the tip of my thumb and then flick the index
upward, the palm is back toward me. You do the flick twice--that means
"eleven."
For twelve you flick both the index and middle finger. Remember palm back
toward you
near your belly
about a foot out from your body
(hmm not as low as your belly more like your rib cage.)
anyway now do 12
now stick the thumb out to the side
with the index and middle still pointing up in the air
the ring and pinkie tucked in
bend the index and middle back toward you twice
that is thirteen.
now tuck the thumb into the palm
Scoots55: like "three"
BillVicars: Thirteen is indeed a palm-back three that bends the index and
middle at the large knuckles a couple times.
When I do it my index and middle "stick together" like the letter "U"
Fourteen tucks the thumb in and sticks all four fingers up, (palm back)
and bends the straight fingers back from the large knuckels.
with a double motion.
knuckles
now 15
stick the thumb out like you did on #13
and keep all four fingers up like in #14
bend the fingers back again using the same motion as in 13 and 14.
and viola you have it.
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