How do you sign “Texting” in ASL?
TEXT: TEXT in American Sign Language (ASL) means to send a typed message, and texting is the same sign in motion. The video and GIF below demonstrate the sign.


When do you use the sign TEXT?
TEXT threads through running-late notices, group chats, and dinner-table etiquette debates. Texting was a Deaf communication staple before it was anyone else’s, and the sign wears that history lightly.
Lesson 176 of the challenge covers it in Book 5.
📖 TEXT is taught in Lesson 176 of ASLI 5: Fingerspelling I — Book 5 of the 216-Day Challenge →

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