what is fingerspelling in asl?
A form of borrowing, a linguistic process wherein words from one language are incorporated into another.
American Sign Language
a form of borrowing, a linguistic process wherein words from one language are incorporated into another. 
when was asl recognized as an official language UNANSWERABLE who created it? Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet how is it classified? It brought together Old French Sign Language, various village sign languages, and home sign systems; ASL was created in that situation by language contact. do you know what percentage of the population uses it? UNANSWERABLE is there a stigma to it? Stigmas associated with sign languages and the use of sign for educating children often lead to the absence of sign during periods in children's lives when they can access languages most effectively. what is its syntax? ASL is a subject–verb–object (SVO) language, but various phenomena affect that basic word order. Basic SVO sentences are signed without any pauses do you know how many people use sign language? Between 250,000 and 500,000 are there different varieties? Yes, mutual intelligibility among ASL varieties is high, and the variation is primarily lexical. what are the properties of s-v-o? Subject–verb–object languages almost always place relative clauses after the nouns which they modify and adverbial subordinators before the clause modified, with varieties of Chinese being notable exceptions. can you give me a few examples? "The dog bit Andy" and "Andy bit the dog" mean two completely different things, while, in case of "Bit Andy the dog", it may be difficult to determine whether it's a complete sentence or a fragment, with "Andy the dog" the object and an omitted/implied subject.
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American Sign Language [SEP] Fingerspelling
ASL possesses a set of 26 signs known as the American manual alphabet, which can be used to spell out words from the English language. Such signs make use of the 19 handshapes of ASL. For example, the signs for 'p' and 'k' use the same handshape but different orientations. A common misconception is that ASL consists only of fingerspelling; although such a method (Rochester Method) has been used, it is not ASL. Fingerspelling is a form of borrowing, a linguistic process wherein words from one language are incorporated into another. In ASL, fingerspelling is used for proper nouns and for technical terms with no native ASL equivalent.