How do you sign “Wisconsin” in ASL?
WISCONSIN: WISCONSIN in American Sign Language (ASL) is signed as an abbreviation of the state’s name. The video and animated demonstration below show how it looks.


When do you use the sign WISCONSIN?
State names come up constantly: where you are from, where you studied, travel stories, sports talk. Many U.S. state names are signed as fingerspelled abbreviations, much as they are shortened in writing, and Wisconsin follows that pattern.
Place names are not tied to a single lesson, but the 216-Day Challenge builds the fingerspelling skills that state abbreviations rely on.
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