American Sign Language: "abcs" or "the alphabet."
This page discusses how to express the concept of "the ABC's" and/or how you would sign the concept of "alphabet."
If instead you would like to learn the fingerspelled ABC's please visit the fingerspelling page ►
To express the concept of the "ABC's," you spell the individual letters A, B, and C, and then you add the FINGERSPELL sign.
ABC's:
You can also express the concept of "the ABC's" by spelling A-B-C and then signing "through"-(indexing a horizontal list) and then "Z."
If you need to be even "more" clear, you could sign:
ABC through Z and then use your index fingers to indicate that you are talking about the letters as a "set."
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