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This journal entry is list of flags or other simple symbols of languages. For some languages is good flag of its spoken country, for some not. More I write about it here. I list official languages first, because they are well-defined. Unofficial languages are listed here. Page of Mr. Canov and Reddit helped me to assign flags for some languages.
Languages official in at least two continents
Languages official in at least two continents
- Dutch (Europe, America): wiki reddit native speakers; language union distinct dialect
- English (Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania): Urheimat main users more users simple mix cross shape pan-symbol native speakers Shikku27316 de facto language union British English (version) American English Hinglish some other dialects desirable
- French (Europe, Africa, America, Oceania): Urheimat and main user language union three native users one of them fusion by hosmich
- Portuguese (Europe, Asia, Africa, America): two main users version by hosmich (simplified) pan-symbol from reddit varpho; Leoninia; hosmich's fusions; best of them recognizable symbol Brazilian variant
- Russian (Europe, Asia): main user de facto language union Cossack dialect Siberian variant (declared language in 2005)
- Spanish (Europe, Africa, America): Urheimat Hispanic America fusion by hosmich more users version version from reddit historic pan-symbol distinct dialects
- Arabic (Asia, Africa): historic pan-symbol large part of Urheimat main user (own Wikipedia) Reddit: typical letter typical ornament number of countries pan-Arab colors Gulf variant Hassaniya variant Druze dialect Iran dialect
- Hindustani (Asia, Oceania): historic user (pan-symbol?) Urheimat and main user of Hindi main Hindi area main Hindi city main user of Urdu Urdu-speaking movement (version) Fiji Hindi by hosmich (version)
- Greek (Greece, Cyprus): modern era Katharevousa Ottoman era Byzantine era (version) ancient era Shikku27316 era-wide proposal Cypriot variant
- Romanian (Romania, Moldova) pan-symbol Moldovan variant
- Bulgaro-Macedonian simplest basis for hosmich
- Serbo-Croatian historic pan-symbol fusion Serbian: simplest flag Serbian variant Montenegrin variant fusion Croatian: modern Radical Croatian Shikku27316; FederalRepublic Bunjevac dialect Burgenland and Molise dialects desirable Bosniak ethnic Bosniak-dominated area
- German (Germany, Austria) three main users version from reddit CoA added by hosmich "roundel" typical letter and colors final proposal by hosmich Sudet dialect Manták dialect (simpler) Transylvania dialect Volga dialect Swiss German: see Alemannic
- Italian (Italy, San Marino) simplest flag ethnic by Shikku27316; overseas dialects by hosmich
- Swedish (Sweden, Finland) simplest flag ethnic by Shikku27316
- Chinese (China, Singapore) Mandarin characters single character fusion of two users and character pan-symbol fusions: pan-Chinese traditional script simplified script era-wide symbol
- Korean (North Korea, South Korea) non-political flag neutral symbol from it North Korean use (becoming distinct variant) fusions: CoralArts; Alternateflags
- Malay (Malaysia, Brunei) "ethnic" hosmich distinct dialect
- Pan-Malay (including Indonesian): hosmich; Shikku27316 (better)
- Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania) highest-level user main users fusions: reddit #2 hosmich (best)
- Croatian: see Serbo-Croatian
- Turkish (Cyprus) good flag Bulgarian use Georgian use
- Persian (Afghanistan) non-religious ethnic Dari variant
- Tamil (Sri Lanka) pan-symbols: ethnic linguistic variants: Indian Sri Lankan
- Sotho (South Africa) Southern (headgear alone is minimal) Northern (main city) common tricolor is pan-symbol
- Swati (South Africa) main user
- Tswana (South Africa) cognate South African use (more speakers)
- Kikongo/Kituba (DR Congo) main user and cognate ethnic
Languages official in only one country (at national level)
- Albanian (if not counting Kosovo) Tosk eagle Gheg eagle simplest pan-symbol Arbëreshë variant
- Bulgarian simplest Shikku27316 Pomak variant
- Macedonian country ethnic fusion
- Slovenian CoA or naval jack (national flag is complex) proposals: Shikku27316 DeathPwnie Montii26
- Belarusian modern standard Taraškievica
- Ukrainian (if not counting Transnistria) simplest Shikku27316
- Irish simplest
- Luxembourgish ethnic and recognizable
- Catalan simplest Valencian variant
- Latin better than modern statist
- Maltese (variant of Arabic) recognizable and simpler than state flag
- Danish simplest dechristianized by Shikku27316
- Dano-Norwegian koiné combined flag
- Estonian simplest (see Võro)
- Finnish simplest
- Icelandic simplest
- Latvian simplest
- Lithuanian simplest recognizable (unlike this)
- Norwegian pan-symbol version by Shikku27316 historic for Bokmål subdivision for Nynorsk (symbols of other variants acceptable)
- Czech simplest official (suitable for pan-Czechoslovak); Czech-only p r o p o s a l s: nova-vlajka.vlast.cz (some are suitable for Common Czech) Moravian dialect (Hantec) Chodsko dialect
- Hungarian simplest Székely variant (CoA) Felvidék dialect
- Polish simplest less confusing with Bohemia (vexillization) Lithuania dialect
- Slovak flag with simplest CoA (vexillized by Shikku27316) Shikku27316 #2; distinct dialect
- Abkhazian (disputed independence) base for simplest roundel
- Ossetian (disputed independence) Southern flag
- Armenian simplest Western variant
- Azerbaijani simplest Southern variant (alternatives)
- Georgian simplest Adjarian dialect
- Kazakh statist simpler (possible source) not simpler
- Kyrgyz simplest flag (sun alone is minimal)
- Tajik (variant of Persian) simplest
- Turkmen basis for simplest flag (round version) Iraqi dialect
- Uzbek basis for simplest roundel
- Japanese simplest flag (sun alone is minimal)
- Mongolian minimal symbol from official and this flag (Inner Mongolian variant)
- Vietnamese Vietnam use overseas use pan-symbol
- Bengali cognate country less statist
- Burmese simplest flag
- Dhivehi only user
- Dzongkha best flag
- Nepali (Gorkha) Nepal use India use possible pan-symbol (wiki versions)
- Sinhala minimal symbol without Sri Lankan stripes for Tamils and Moros (version)
- Khmer basis for minimal roundel
- Lao without moon still recognizable
- Hebrew Modern Israeli Old Hebrew star alone is pan-symbol
- Tagalog/Filipino historic for Tagalog complex for Filipino (version) common symbol
- Indonesian (variant of Malay) simplest hosmich distinct dialect
- Tetum de facto cognate
- Thai simplest
- Afrikaans cognate country ethnic (underfit) historic underfit (doesn't cover Cape) reddit distinct group
- Amharic cognate subdivision (but user is whole country)
- Chichewa de facto cognate (this flag is endorsed by Southern Malawians, Tumbuka is spoken in Northern Malawi. See Tumbuka)
- Kinyarwanda cognate
- Kirundi cognate
- Seychellois Creole cognate
- Somali cognate (but not only user)
- Tigrinya cognate subdivision (simpler than flag of Eritrea)
- Berber pan-Berber (suitable for Kabyle) Tarifit suitable for Tachelhit
- Malagasy de facto cognate
- Sango national language
- Haitian Creole simplest
- Guaraní pan-Guaraní Mbya variant
- Bislama national language
- Fijian CoA usable until adoption of new flag (proposal by Leoninia)
- Hiri Motu older flag for indigenous language (better flag wanted)
- Tok Pisin newer flag for more used language
- Maori ethnic Cook Islands variant (main user)
- Bosnian: see Serbo-Croatian
- Frisian (Netherlands) West Frisian North Frisian Saterland (flag) is last survivor of East Frisian pan-Frisian Nordic pan-Frisian round ancient Frisian
- Romansh (Switzerland) recognizable as part of last spoken canton (variants: Sursilvan Sutsilvan Surmiran Puter Vallader)
- Rheto-Romance pan-symbol from reddit has versions for Romansh, Ladin and Friulian
- Kurdish (Iraq) pan-Kurdish Sorani two versions for Zazaki (Dimli and Kirmanjki) Syrian use
- Pashtu (Afghanistan) cultural flag proposal by Jolle
- Sindhi (Pakistan) cognate subdivision simpler separatist
- Hausa (Nigeria) nice flag black stripe used by Xumarov blue stripe
- Igbo (Nigeria) de facto cognate
- Yoruba (Nigeria) from FOTW from Yoruba Nation version by Xumarov
- Ndebele (Southern: South Africa, Northern: Zimbabwe) Southern Northern: without hand or this (ZANU is Shona party)
- Northern Sotho: see Sotho
- Shona (Zimbabwe) main language (the bird is Shona symbol)
- Tsonga (South Africa) two main users or non-statist
- Venda (South Africa) cognate
- Xhosa (South Africa) fusion of users)
- Zulu (South Africa) historic similar to Lithuania AH
- Lingala (DR Congo) main user (better flag desirable)
- Luba (DR Congo) Kasai variant Katanga variant (pan-Luba flag wanted)
- Aymara (Bolivia, Peru) main user
- Quechua (Peru, Bolivia) main city pan-Quechua Inca era Putumayo variant Ancash variant
Languages official at level of semi-independent country
- Manx cognate country
- Faroese cognate country
- Greenlandic cognate country
- Cantonese (variant of Chinese) letters cognate city AH country
- Papiamento pan-country (later divided) modern flag wanted
- Basque ethnic underfit historic pan-symbol Lauburu (ethnic symbol)
- Crimean Tatar ethnic
- Gagauz ethnic (simpler is statist)
- Galician simplest
- Occitan cognate Aranese variant Gascon variant
- Rusyn pan-symbol Carpathian variant Lemko variant Pannonian variant (similar to Eastern Slovak)
- Sami pan-symbol older flag Sweden use
- Scottish Gaelic spoken area version by Shikku27316
- Scots spoken area in Great Britain Ulster Scots variant (version) pan-symbol more Germanic version by Shikku27316; overcover, but usable
- Welsh cognate
- Karelian main user Livv variant and pan-symbol Ludian variant
- Veps cognate
- Abaza cognate
- Adyghe (Western Circassian) cognate
- Aghul (Dagestan) ethnic
- Altay pan-symbol Southern variant Northern variant
- Avar (Dagestan) simplest wolf more standard nonstandard colors
- Bashkir cognate
- Buryat cognate Soyot variant
- Chechen Russian use diaspora use
- Chukchi cognate
- Chuvash cognate
- Dargwa (Dagestan) spoken area basis for ethnic
- Dolgan proposal by O. Tarnovsky
- Erzya ethnic
- Even ethnic (source)
- Evenki cognate area ethnic
- Ingush cognate
- Kabardian-Cherkess (Eastern Circassian) pan-symbol Kabardian by EH.ru (Xumarov) proposal
- Kalmyk cognate
- Karachay-Balkar Balkar use Karachay use pan-symbol by Xumarov
- Khakas official cognate simplest ethnic
- Khanty spoken area
- Komi cognate for Zyrian variant two variants for Permyak variant spoken area of Yodzyak variant
- Kumyk (Dagestan) ethnic
- Lak (Dagestan) older newer ethnic flag (both used here) Xumarov
- Lezgian (Dagestan) ethnic
- Mansi spoken area (common with Khanty) flag by EH.ru
- Mari (Meadow, Hill) subdivision suitable for Meadow use Hill use pan-symbol by Shikku27316
- Moksha ethnic
- Nenets Nenetsia use (Tundra variant) Yamalia use (Forest variant) pan-Nenets proposal pan-Nenets AH
- Nogai (variant of Tatar) (Dagestan) ethnic
- Ossetian (if not counting South Ossetia) Northern flag
- Rutul (Dagestan) Canov
- Sakha cognate
- Selkup cognate
- Tabasaran (Dagestan) CoA included in two flags (second remade by Xumarov)
- Tat (Dagestan) pan-symbol; Muslim use; Jewish use; Armenian use; Iranian variant (distinct)
- Tatar Tatarstan use diaspora use Belarus use Siberian dialect (version)
- Tsakhur (Dagestan) Flagspot Christus Rex (image)
- Tuvan cognate
- Udmurt cognate
- Yukaghir pan-symbol area of Tundra variant area of Kolyma variant
- Yiddish wiki Shikku27316
- Karakalpak cognate
- Assamese most accurate flag
- Gujarati more cognate than Rajpipla
- Kannada almost official
- Kashmiri most official cognate separatist
- Malayalam simplest than seal of Kerala
- Marathi linguistic flag
- Oriya cognate proposal AH country
- Punjabi Indian use Pakistani use linguistic unification
- Sanskrit simplest basis for Shikku27316
- Telugu white stripe (better?) yellow stripe
- Zomi (Chin, Hmar, Kuki, Mizo, Thado, Zou) Chin use (Myanmar) suitable for Hakha-Chin Chinland use (Bangladesh) Mizo use (India) flag used by both Chin and Mizo; Hmar Bnei Menashe (mainly Kuki) proposal suitable for Kuki or Zou Zomi unification (Xumarov) Thado wanted
- Sarikoli (variant of Tajik) spoken area
- Tibetan ethnic flag simpler
- Uyghur ethnic flag
- Zhuang proposal by Leoninia historic by Nederbird
- Chipewyan Métis flag (better wanted)
- Cree pan-symbol (Xumarov) tribal logo Innu dialect
- Gwich'in ethnic flag main figure
- Innuinaqtun Xumarov
- Inuktitut main user Labrador use pan-symbol (Xumarov)
- Inuvialuktun Xumarov tribal logo
- Slavey South (Dehcho) North (Sahtu) pan-symbol wanted
- Tłįchǫ (Dogrib) tribal (tents alone are better)
- Hawaiian ethnic
- Tahitian simplest (basis for French Polynesia) ethnic (overcover)
Outline of me (Epilogue)
Hello everybody!
I am member of deviantART since Summer 2013 and until now I have published 200 files (pictures and texts). Many of them were flags, coats of arms, maps and alternate history stories. However, the greatest work I compiled at deviantART is this list of language symbols:
First part: official languages (official at national or subnational level)
Second part: unofficial languages (because the first part was full)
Third part: small languages (all that didn't fit in the second part)
Of course I created some linguistic flags and listed them here. My other galleries contain various maps (mainly flag maps), symbols of possible Slo
How to do vexillological trolling
My last journal was about changing the British flag in case of Scottish independence. Now I know the results: 55% for Union, so "Kingdom of Scotland" and "United Kingdom of Southern Great Britain and Northern Ireland" will not appear in next editions of maps. However, if Scotland seceded from the Union, the Union Jack (this term is preferred by Wikipedia) could be unchanged. The Union Jack was created in 1606 after Union of the Crowns and was not changed in 1707 by Union of the Parliaments. In 1801 it was changed while uniting Ireland with Great Britain and not changed in 1921 where Southern Ireland became independent. This tick-tack could ma
Flag of the Scot-free United Kingdom
When you read this entry, referendum about Scottish independence is probably over. I am writing this on September 12th 2014, so I don't know the result. I personally like the Union Flag (this term is less controversial than Union Jack), so I am not prone to change it. However, this is in no way an argument against independence of Scotland! Flags are adapting to countries, not vice versa. I divide this entry in parts: some will be about human-geographic implications of the 'Yes' vote and the others about future flag of the rump United Kingdom (rUK).
Britannia and Hispania were Roman provinces, names of currently fragile countries are derived
Symbols of small languages
Continuation of this and this list, because their size limit was reached.
Here I list languages that don't have official status, ISO 639-1 code, own Wikipedia or Canov's table. They still can have own flag, for example because its ethnicity has flag. Sometimes the language has explicit linguistic flag. Flags of some constructed languages are listed here. These constructed languages are listed in previous entries: Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Interlingue, Volapük, Novial, Lojban. The rest is here.
Ethicities listed in list on English Wikipedia
Fur cognateHarari cognateBakonjo ethnic
Maasai ethnic
Bamileke macrolanguage ethnic
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More ideas (for both journals):
Vilamovian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Silesian German: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fla…
Swabian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
East Franconian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wap…
Meänkieli: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Kven: flagspot.net/images/n/no_kvenl…
Jutlandic: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Norn: coming soon
Mocheno: xumarov.deviantart.com/art/Moc… (I will find/make a better one)
Cimbrian: flagspot.net/images/i/it-cim13…
Sassarese: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sas…
Fala: shikku27316.deviantart.com/art…
Dalmatian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Istro-Romanian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… i.imgur.com/P5tqA.png
Megleno-Romanian: coming soon
Karaim: flagspot.net/images/p/pl_karai…
Prussian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__c… (second is more distinctive)
Urum: xumarov.deviantart.com/art/Uru… (I will try to find/make a better one
Krymchak: www.fotw.net/flags/ua_krymc.ht…
Sudovian: shikku27316.deviantart.com/art… (better than less-distinctive ones already shown, and more symbolic)
Upper Sorbian: flagspot.net/images/d/de-sn-ol…
Lower Sorbian: www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d…
Sambal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vla…
Surigaonon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vla…
Aklanon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fla…
Ibanag: philippineculture.ph/filer/Iba…
Deh Cho (South Slavey): www.dehcho.org/images/header.j… (only the symbol on the left, without the words probably)
Avestan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Far… (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… is for Old Persian)
Old Church Slavonic: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… (it is older than Slavic Christianity, so it is not exclusively a church language.)
Also upcoming: Tarantine, Ivatan, Sahtu (northern Slavey)
Also, why not use my alternatives for Slavic and Nordic Cross flags? They're more distinctive.
Vilamovian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Silesian German: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fla…
Swabian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
East Franconian: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wap…
Meänkieli: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Kven: flagspot.net/images/n/no_kvenl…
Jutlandic: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Norn: coming soon
Mocheno: xumarov.deviantart.com/art/Moc… (I will find/make a better one)
Cimbrian: flagspot.net/images/i/it-cim13…
Sassarese: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sas…
Fala: shikku27316.deviantart.com/art…
Dalmatian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
Istro-Romanian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… i.imgur.com/P5tqA.png
Megleno-Romanian: coming soon
Karaim: flagspot.net/images/p/pl_karai…
Prussian: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… static1.wikia.nocookie.net/__c… (second is more distinctive)
Urum: xumarov.deviantart.com/art/Uru… (I will try to find/make a better one
Krymchak: www.fotw.net/flags/ua_krymc.ht…
Sudovian: shikku27316.deviantart.com/art… (better than less-distinctive ones already shown, and more symbolic)
Upper Sorbian: flagspot.net/images/d/de-sn-ol…
Lower Sorbian: www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/d…
Sambal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vla…
Surigaonon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vla…
Aklanon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fla…
Ibanag: philippineculture.ph/filer/Iba…
Deh Cho (South Slavey): www.dehcho.org/images/header.j… (only the symbol on the left, without the words probably)
Avestan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Far… (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… is for Old Persian)
Old Church Slavonic: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… (it is older than Slavic Christianity, so it is not exclusively a church language.)
Also upcoming: Tarantine, Ivatan, Sahtu (northern Slavey)
Also, why not use my alternatives for Slavic and Nordic Cross flags? They're more distinctive.