How do you sign the letter N in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter N in BSL?
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:35:35.523691+00:00
Description: Passive hand open, palm up. Lay two fingers of your dominant hand — index and middle — flat across the passive palm. No movement. N is the 14th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Passive hand open, palm up. Lay two fingers of your dominant hand — index and middle — flat across the passive palm. No movement. N is the 14th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

Two fingers on the palm, like the two legs of a printed n. N doubles in Anna: spell A, N, N, A to practise moving from a fingertip to the palm.

You will fingerspell N in names like Noah, Nancy and Nathan and places like Newcastle, Norwich and Nottingham. Practise it next to M and O, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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