Number Signs


1
one

2
two

3
three

4
four

5
five

6
six

7
seven

8
eight

9
nine

10
ten

11
eleven

12
twelve

13
thirteen

14
fourteen

15
fifteen

16
sixteen

17
seventeen

18
eighteen

19
nineteen

20
twenty


Click on a number on the left, and you will see the range of BSL sign variants (also frequencies and regional distributions) produced in the “What’s your sign?” task from the BSL Corpus. In this task, 249 Deaf BSL signers (30 each in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester & Newcastle, 32 in Bristol & 37 in London) were asked their signs for 102 various concepts, including some numbers, colours, countries, UK place names, and range of other concepts which were known to show a wide range of regional variation in BSL.