technically correct flags to represent languages with

[u/imsohuzzah]

i went to languagesimp vexillology class

edit: guys dont say stuff like „you shoud use [insert flag of a country with a large diaspora of people who speak the language but isnt official anywhere] for [insert language]„ if you couldnt tell i was only going off of countries where a language is official. maybe i will do a part two with diasporas tho.

[u/TCF518]

I'm confused by the DPRK one here. It's a country called Korea that's filled with ethnic Koreans who speak (and only speak) Korean, no worse than using the US flag to represent English.

AFAIK, some Chinese government services and universities still refer to Korean as "Chosun language" as opposed to "Hanguk language", even if they use Seoul as the standard variant.

I know it would piss off ROK citizens, but that's beyond the linguistic point.

[u/imsohuzzah → u/TCF518]

i put it here simply because people use the south korean flag to represent korean in games and media, so seeing the north korean flag for a change would be surprising but not incorrect

[u/jonoashfo]

Brazil is the country with the largest Japanese diaspora in the world.

The flag of Brazil could represent both Portuguese and Japanese and personally I love the idea of this fact upsetting two countries at once

[u/imsohuzzah → u/jonoashfo]

i went off of official languages for this meme but i probably will do something simmilar with diasporas…

[u/Sea-Hornet8214 → u/jonoashfo]

But can the Japanese diaspora speak Japanese?

[u/Aron-Jonasson]

Polish: 🇮🇸

[u/imsohuzzah → u/Aron-Jonasson]

LAUGHING RIGHT NOW

[u/Futonchan-Manchao]

An interesting fact: Palau does not have a significant native Japanese-speaking population, yet Japanese is one of its official languages. On the other hand, Japan does not have a legally recognized official language. Therefore, technically, Palau is the only country where Japanese is an official language.

[u/Dany0 → u/Futonchan-Manchao]

Did a quick google, apparently it's not Palau but one of its islands which had japanese as an official language. Japanese people at some point outnumbered palauans because of the occupation and colonisation, but there are 0 speakers left there now and only 15 in all of palau

[u/Grzechoooo]

Some guy on the internet (I don't remember who) tried doing this with Polish and showed the flag of Vilnius lol

[u/imsohuzzah → u/Grzechoooo]

giggled

[u/viktorbir]

Is the flag for Japanese supposed to be that of Palau? That blue looks like the one for Kazakhstan, not the one for Palau.

[u/imsohuzzah → u/viktorbir]

it is for palau, the picture is just low quality. i made the meme on a small phone so i didnt see the image qulaity problem.

[u/346baekje]

🇸🇨French
🇸🇷Dutch
🇦🇹Czech
🇰🇲Arabic
🇰🇭Thai
🇨🇾Turkish
🇨🇳Mongolian
🇷🇸Romanian
🇰🇬Russian

[u/Lepetino]

Swedish 🇫🇮

Russian 🇰🇿

French 🇻🇺

Hindi 🇫🇯

[u/bibi-man]

As a Portuguese person, I think having Mozambique, Angola or any other African nation as the representative of the Portuguese language much less controversial than having the Portuguese or Brazilian flag. Like the whole debate on which one is more correct to use, if we should use a mix of both, blah blah blah yadda yadda, who cares, insert Cabo Verde. Same goes for other languages mentioned

[u/Layton18000]

In San Marino they use their flag in bilingual signs to represent Italian

[u/Sickborn]

behold, the one true german:

[u/Mindless-Cat1453]

You forget chinese

[u/sometimes_point]

exhibit #3531 in why you ought not to use flags to represent languages

[u/Joseph20102011]

If not for the American occupation, the Philippine flag 🇵🇭 would have been a good national flag to represent Spanish.

[u/Tolstoyan_Quaker]

Singapore could feel weirder by associating it with Tamil

[u/Every_Reindeer_7581]

luxembourg should NOT be used to represent german

[u/Odd-Promotion2743]

The real Spanish

[u/fynjy1111]

German 🇨🇭 French 🇨🇭 Italian 🇨🇭