ASL review for: France

Meaning: a country in Western Europe.

Phonological variation: The movement or direction of this sign is sometimes the opposite.

It appears to be earliest ASL sign for FRENCH recorded. Signed by George Veditz in the 1913 film, "The Preservation of American Sign Language".

The same sign for FRENCH.

Signs for cities in France: PARIS.

Related signs: EUROPE.

Review 101 words. Refresher.

  1. about
  2. after
  3. again
  4. age
  5. alone
  6. always
  7. and
  8. animal
  9. answer
  10. ask
  11. ask away
  12. ASL - American Sign Language
  13. bad
  14. bathroom
  15. beard
  16. beautiful
  17. before
  18. begin
  19. big
  20. black
  21. blue
  22. book
  23. born
  24. both
  25. boy
  26. brother
  27. brown
  28. but
  29. buy
  30. bye-bye
  31. can
  32. car
  33. cat
  34. chair
  35. change
  36. child
  37. children
  38. city
  39. class
  40. clear
  41. clothes
  42. coffee
  43. cold
  44. college
  45. color
  46. come
  47. copy
  48. correct
  49. count
  50. country
  51. cup
  52. dance
  53. dead
  54. deaf
  55. different
  56. dog
  57. done
  58. door
  59. drawing
  60. dress
  61. drink
  62. duty
  63. easy
  64. eight (8)
  65. eighteen (18)
  66. eleven
  67. English
  68. enjoy
  69. everyday
  70. example
  71. excited
  72. eyeglasses
  73. fall in love
  74. family
  75. fast
  76. father
  77. few
  78. fifteen (15)
  79. find
  80. fine
  81. fingerspell
  82. finish
  83. fish
  84. fishing
  85. five (5)
  86. floor
  87. follow
  88. food
  89. for
  90. forget
  91. four
  92. fourteen
  93. French
  94. Friday
  95. friend
  96. from
  97. game
  98. Germany
  99. get
  100. girl
  101. give
  102. go
  103. good
  104. goodbye
  105. grandfather
  106. grandmother
  107. gray
  108. green
  109. group
  110. grow
  111. hair
  112. happy
  113. hard
  114. hard of hearing
  115. hat
  116. have
  117. he
  118. hearing
  119. hello
  120. help
  121. hide
  122. high
  123. high school
  124. holiday
  125. home
  126. homework
  127. hot
  128. hour
  129. house
  130. how
  131. how much
  132. idea
  133. if
  134. Internet
  135. jacket
  136. jot
  137. jump
  138. keep
  139. know
  140. language
  141. last
  142. late
  143. later
  144. learn
  145. left-handed
  146. letter
  147. like (feeling)
  148. like (same)
  149. little
  150. live
  151. long
  152. look
  153. look at
  154. look for
  155. look like
  156. lose
  157. lose (game)
  158. love
  159. love it
  160. low
  161. make
  162. man
  163. many
  164. maybe
  165. meaning
  166. meet
  167. milk
  168. minus
  169. minute
  170. money
  171. month
  172. more
  173. morning
  174. most
  175. mother
  176. move
  177. movie
  178. much
  179. must
  180. my
  181. name
  182. near
  183. need
  184. never
  185. new
  186. next
  187. night
  188. nine (9)
  189. no
  190. not
  191. nothing
  192. now
  193. number
  194. office
  195. often
  196. ok
  197. old
  198. on
  199. one
  200. open
  201. opposite
  202. orange
  203. other
  204. overnight
  205. pants
  206. paper
  207. parent
  208. pay attention
  209. pen
  210. people
  211. person
  212. picture
  213. pink
  214. pizza
  215. play
  216. please
  217. pointless
  218. pop (drink)
  219. practice
  220. pretty
  221. purple
  222. question
  223. rabbit
  224. read
  225. ready
  226. receive
  227. receptive
  228. red
  229. remember
  230. right (correct)
  231. room
  232. roommate
  233. same
  234. Saturday
  235. Saturdays
  236. say
  237. scheme
  238. school
  239. see
  240. sentence
  241. seven (7)
  242. seventeen
  243. shape
  244. she
  245. shirt
  246. shoes
  247. should
  248. show
  249. sick
  250. sign language
  251. signing
  252. since
  253. sister
  254. sit
  255. six (6)
  256. sixteen (16)
  257. slow
  258. small
  259. some
  260. sometimes
  261. soon
  262. sorry
  263. Spanish
  264. stand
  265. start
  266. stay
  267. still
  268. stop
  269. store
  270. story
  271. student
  272. study
  273. study group
  274. subtitle
  275. subtract
  276. successful
  277. sun
  278. Sunday
  279. Sundays
  280. sure
  281. table
  282. take
  283. talk
  284. tea
  285. teach
  286. teacher
  287. team
  288. tell
  289. ten
  290. test
  291. thank you
  292. that
  293. their
  294. they
  295. think
  296. thirteen (13)
  297. three
  298. throw
  299. tired
  300. today
  301. tomorrow
  302. too
  303. travel
  304. try
  305. Tuesday
  306. Tuesdays
  307. twelve (12)
  308. two (2)
  309. understand
  310. university
  311. use
  312. vacation
  313. very
  314. visit
  315. voice
  316. wait
  317. walk
  318. want
  319. warm
  320. watch
  321. water
  322. wedding
  323. Wednesday
  324. Wednesdays
  325. week
  326. what
  327. when
  328. where
  329. which
  330. white
  331. who
  332. why
  333. will
  334. win
  335. window
  336. with
  337. woman
  338. word
  339. work
  340. write
  341. write down
  342. writing
  343. wrong
  344. yellow
  345. yes
  346. yesterday
  347. you
  348. your