Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Learn the British Sign Language (BSL) signs for ALL 48 countries competing at the FIFA World Cup 2026.
In BSL, some countries may not have widely recognised signs and therefore fingerspelling can be used to remove any ambiguity. Where there isn't an established sign for a country, it's common practice to use the International Sign (IS). The IS sign often adopts the sign used by that country's native Deaf population. Some BSL signs (as you might notice) reflect external stereotypes of a country which are visually descriptive.
Languages naturally evolve and in BSL, many countries have variations of signs. For this video, we've opted to demonstrate just one sign per country. It's worth keeping in mind that countries such as Spain, the USA and Canada do have variations. If you know any different signs, please share them in the comments.
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Video Timestamps:
00:21 Mexico
00:26 South Africa
00:33 South Korea
00:39 Czech Republic
00:47 Canada
00:52 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:59 Qatar
01:04 Switzerland
01:12 Brazil
01:16 Morocco
01:21 Haiti
01:27 Scotland
01:35 United States of America
01:40 Paraguay
01:45 Australia
01:50 Türkiye
01:58 Germany
02:03 Curacao
02:08 Ivory Coast
02:14 Ecuador
02:22 Netherlands
02:27 Japan
02:32 Sweden
02:37 Tunisia
02:45 Belgium
02:50 Egypt
02:56 Iran
03:01 New Zealand
03:10 Spain
03:15 Cape Verde
03:21 Saudi Arabia
03:26 Uruguay
03:34 France
03:39 Senegal
03:45 Iraq
03:50 Norway
03:58 Argentina
04:03 Algeria
04:09 Austria
04:14 Jordan
04:22 Portugal
04:28 Congo DR
04:33 Uzbekistan
04:40 Colombia
04:48 England
04:53 Croatia
04:59 Ghana
05:04 Panama
#BritishSignLanguage #BSL
Learn the British Sign Language (BSL) signs for ALL 48 countries competing at the FIFA World Cup 2026.
In BSL, some countries may not have widely recognised signs and therefore fingerspelling can be used to remove any ambiguity. Where there isn't an established sign for a country, it's common practice to use the International Sign (IS). The IS sign often adopts the sign used by that country's native Deaf population. Some BSL signs (as you might notice) reflect external stereotypes of a country which are visually descriptive.
Languages naturally evolve and in BSL, many countries have variations of signs. For this video, we've opted to demonstrate just one sign per country. It's worth keeping in mind that countries such as Spain, the USA and Canada do have variations. If you know any different signs, please share them in the comments.
Learn British Sign Language (BSL) for free with Commanding Hands. Subscribe to us on YouTube for more content.
Commanding Hands aims to provide free learning resources to help everyone learn British Sign Language (BSL). We believe access to learning BSL is a basic right for people in the UK. Our content will always be free-to-access in some format.
Support Commanding Hands 🤟 Become a member of our YouTube channel to help financially support us enabling us to continue creating content. Join here: youtube.com/c/CommandingHands/join
Find us on Instagram: instagram.com/commandinghandsbsl
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/CommandingHandsBSL
Find us on X: twitter.com/commandinghands
Find us on TikTok: tiktok.com/@commandinghands
Visit our website: commandinghands.co.uk
Video Timestamps:
00:21 Mexico
00:26 South Africa
00:33 South Korea
00:39 Czech Republic
00:47 Canada
00:52 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:59 Qatar
01:04 Switzerland
01:12 Brazil
01:16 Morocco
01:21 Haiti
01:27 Scotland
01:35 United States of America
01:40 Paraguay
01:45 Australia
01:50 Türkiye
01:58 Germany
02:03 Curacao
02:08 Ivory Coast
02:14 Ecuador
02:22 Netherlands
02:27 Japan
02:32 Sweden
02:37 Tunisia
02:45 Belgium
02:50 Egypt
02:56 Iran
03:01 New Zealand
03:10 Spain
03:15 Cape Verde
03:21 Saudi Arabia
03:26 Uruguay
03:34 France
03:39 Senegal
03:45 Iraq
03:50 Norway
03:58 Argentina
04:03 Algeria
04:09 Austria
04:14 Jordan
04:22 Portugal
04:28 Congo DR
04:33 Uzbekistan
04:40 Colombia
04:48 England
04:53 Croatia
04:59 Ghana
05:04 Panama
#BritishSignLanguage #BSL
