for instance?

why

the dutch agenda of course

what's the agenda

Also Hilbert, I wouldn't pin that guy and give him more attention.

Take my upvote and leave 😠

Why not French QC and French FR

@@Game_Hero French is an official language of Canada.

Absolutely cursed and I love it

As a South African English speaker, this is a win.

that was also my first thought

>which flag should be used to represent the language of america >doesnt show the flag of america

Meeeh. England doesn't deserve it.

@@OC_Cuber I didn't knew continents had flags!

0 likes and no replies? Let me fix that

good on you, Simp

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And what about "EL CATALA"?...😑😑🤔...

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I think he should have included the flag of the Arab Revolt since it is sometimes used to represent Arabic, I personally think it is the best option, because it is a pan-Arab flag.

Also he never explained why the Arabic language flag used that specific letter. Arabic has a nickname, the language of ض (dhaad, that letter in the flag), because it’s thought that this letter is very unique in pronunciation and not used in many other languages

I suppose having the German flag for Yiddish would be a big confusing

That has always been the way in English and I’m guessing most languages, the flag thing is just modern “fashion” or whatever

That makes complete sense, not least because those acronyms are standardized in ISO 639, so people don't need to come up with their own solutions to a problem that was solved years ago.

@@rahjah6958 Fashion since 1990's at least as it most likely originates from computer systems and possibly packaging of products made in places with cheap labour and often alphabets that are quite different from Latin. So it!s with us for some 25-35 years.

@@passantNL But the question is, as I have pointed out in my other comment whether it is solution that can is universally applicable, especially in case of digital media. For example in case of dubbing or language selection in computer games. Especially in case of media intended for kids and for media that are intended to be sold in countries with low literacy rates. In those cases use of ISO codes would most likely fail or would make it harder for people to use given media. Another problem could be with devices set in language in totally different alphabets, if they would use, for whatever reason, transcription of the code to their native alphabet, anybody outside area of use of given alphabet would have it hard to set it in language that is at least using Latin alphabet.

@@MrToradragon No solution is "universally applicable". A child might not recognize a flag unless it was the flag of their own country. And those hybrid designs, that are never used in the real world at all, can be confusing to anyone. I don't think there exists a "universally applicable" solution.

Ooh, fancy 👌

Cute :)

Go to an Iarnród Éireann station and Irish is represented with 🇮🇪, and English is represented with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Sad to see that machine saying that Irish are English

​@@Aresydatch The Irish are English, with a rather large chip on their collective shoulders.

No. English is from England. Portuguese is from Portugal. End of. Both languages should be represented by their country of origin.

The Portuguese language is not such a dual language, it is quite complex. There are so many varieties of the language, that to follow your logic it was necessary to have a flag for each of these varieties. You might even say "Ah, but as Brazil and Portugal are different countries and have different and distant accents, it makes sense to use separate flags". The problem is that the concept of Brazilian Portuguese is generalized, because there are accents in Brazil with a correspondence in Portugal, not the same but with mutual origins, inheritances in this case. In the Minas Gerais region in Brazil, you will find a set of similar phonetics that exist in the Beiras region in Portugal, with in many cases words and phrases sounding the same and the difference not being noticeable. Furthermore, accents in the South of Brazil even have a lot of similarity to neutral Portuguese in Portugal, such a closeness that in many cases it is not noticeable to a Portuguese listener that it is an accent from a foreign country and not from the country itself.

​@@noahbrock349 That's not what the post you're replying to is saying at all. They appear to be saying that for languages with significant differences between the dialects (such as the spelling differences between British and American english) the language should be split into two options, each represented by the relevant flag if one must use a flag at all.

@@noahbrock349 Portuguese is 1. Not originally from Portugal, 2. Not spoken mostly by Portuguese even in its European standard and 3. Not in any relevant way more Portuguese than anyone else's

@@RicardoBaptista33 Brazilian portuguese exists as a different variety than European Portuguese, that's why translations, dubs etc are all différente between them. They at much more separated than British and American English, for example. Phonetically it's not true that Brazilian portuguese of any region is that close to the European variety of the south, which experienced the great vowel shift much after Brazilian Portuguese had already detached itself from Portugal.

Put the Flemish lion on the Dutch flag and we should be set

​@@jeannebouwman1970and maybe a golden star (Suriname) inside of the lion.

Flinders? Like the Simpsons? You just made that place up

@@GeraldEatsSoup in Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe To you from failing hands we throw The torch, be yours to hold it high If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

_Belgium is not a real nation._ - Nigel Farage, European Parliament

Hopefully the right one this time. Not the one of the guy signing at Mandela's funeral...

Yes, but most of the time when people talk about “languages” they are talking about verbal ones.

@@snomcultist189 You're ignoring how the rest of the 12 languages, ARE verbal ones ...and how/why don't sign languages count? They are separate languages.

@@snomcultist189 Huh? What are you talking about? What is a sign language if not a language? It's literally in the name.

@@tonydai782 The video is about a VISUAL representation of a language that is written. One can't read sign language in a medium that would use a flag representation.

Literally so true. I think using flags for languages at all is stupid.

@@philswiftreligioussect9619 I love flags, it's nice

@@peterii3512 Sure, but that doesn't mean you should use them for _languages._

I think we should use language flags, because you can identify a flag much faster than a word. But i dont think these flags should have anything to do with country flags. Just my oppinion

@@idk-wy3pk that's why there are words for languages. What you just said makes no sense. Japanese is Japanese, and Japanese in Japanese is 日本語. Humans are not children, you don't need added graphics to represent languages, and using flags poses more inconveniences than what they're worth.

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Oh, like the flag for Yiddish in Duolingo.

Why? What does the "Ñ" stand for?

@@noahbrock349 spaniards go 0.00001 seconds without being racist challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)

@@just_some_guy_innit What?

This is language flag lol for the majority of the world English is second or third language.

Hmm. You sure bout that? I mean the prestige dialect is Standard North American. Ask your pop singers, lol. Now we should have the maple leaf in the canton. Canada might get mad and send the geese after us if we don't include them.

Came here to say this.

What about the australians?​@@Jesus_equals_LOVEnForgviness

​@@Jesus_equals_LOVEnForgvinessPop singers don't sing in General American, but a modified, often non-rhotic form.

I'm American and I support this. I'm 🇺🇸 and I speak 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

It is.

Just use a picture of the Queen, if you want to refer to the Queen's English.

@@MatthiasGorgens No Keith from the pub would be more recognisable

Wow, I'm surprised the irish have more respect for the english and scottish than the americans!

Always makes me giggle

Scotland?

@@peterii3512 Spoke Gaelic and Scots

​@@peterii3512You do understand why it is called "English"? It is not native to Scotland.

Fair, but I don't think most people would recognize the flag of England if they saw it, even if the would absolutely recognize the US and British flags. personally I like his 1st flag (American and British flags cut diagonally down the middle) with the Canton on his 2nd (the one that represents Canada and Scotland). thereby representing all countries where the majority of the population speaks English as their 1st language (to my knowledge)

@@adamcollins1551 Scots is a dialect of English

Being speaker of a language that uses ñ but it's not Spanish I'm not against this

Ü is also used in many other languages, but for german ẞ could be used, since this letter is unique to german

No. Those letters are not exclusively used in those languages. It is meaningless.

In spanish we use "Ü" too. It's usually when a "U" after a "G" and before an "E" or an "I" o to denote that it's not silent (when in Spanish it would normally be). "Antigüedad" has an articulated "u" while "Guerra" has a silent "u", both following a soft "G.

@@mst671 Exactly. The letter Ü is present in the Hungarian, Turkish, Uyghur Latin, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, German, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh Latin and Tatar Latin alphabets. And in Chinese romanization/Pinyin.

Yeah, ain’t that right? But I think that’s one of the best options out there. Using Taiwanese flag will cause backlash in China, but using HK flag is acceptable for people in Taiwan.

@@sine_nomine_ct "taiwan" not even a country, that's just an island. But anyways, why would you be against using the Chinese flag for Chinese? lol

​@@tovarishcheleonora8542 actual ccp bot in the wild holy shit, also the guy never once said he's against using the chinese flag to represent the chinese, the hell are you on about? shouldn't have expected more from a ccp bot and also Taiwan/ROC by all means IS a country, is just that no one is willing to recognize it due to "economic consequences" and mainland China's hold on international affairs

Cope and seethe tankie​@@tovarishcheleonora8542

​@@tovarishcheleonora8542 Taiwan also known as Republic of China is a country please do not spread that communist propaganda

It's truly hideous.

Use the cross of St George

Saying this as an American, a large swath of the population would not immediately recognize the British flag represents English. You gotta spell it out for them. When you go thru Canadian customs there's a little American flag on the line for foreigners lol

​@@t_ylr Well, that's your education system's fault.

@@t_ylr They should do.

Exactly.

Province flags exist too, btw... If you want to represent a provincial language (like Punjab or Mahrathi) you can use the flag of the province, if you insist on using flags...

@@adrianblake8876 we don’t really have provincial (or more accurately, state) flags in India 🇮🇳

Urdu and Bengali both are Indian languages made by Indians. More people speak Urdu and Bengali in India than Pakistan and Bangladesh

Actually you can represent Tamil with Singapore 🇸🇬 flag

​@@mikhail_verdeeh no, it has originated within India so...

the use for language flags here is mostly discussed for learning apps -> for people that dont speak the language already. Writing the name of languages is the worst possible solution here. Especially if its in a different script. डोटेली नेपाल भाषा नेपाली पालि भोजपुरी मराठी मैथिली संस्कृतम् Just an example

@@konsumkind99 You do both. You show the language in its name in its writing system along with a localized version to the current system language. If you want an additional symbol you can use the ISO codes for languages (albeit these are all in Latin script which is a bias).

You dont need to write the language you want to learn in said language. When will there ever be a native speaker that uses Duolingo to learn their own language via a different one?

But it's not visually appealing

I'm Brazilian, and well... Portuguese from Portugal and Brazilian Portuguese are VERY different, we can almost not understand them. It's not like Americans and Britons who can understand each other easily. I would say that there must be a separation of the 2 languages, as there is a lot of difference, even though we have been influenced by them, our language is made up of several others.

​@@Seyex But could you read things written in the European Portuguese variety or are the differences more extreme when spoken?

@@samplesample7178 The difference is most noticeable when spoken, accent and the different use of words complicates our communication. Now when it comes to writing, some words are the same as the ones we use. For example... In Portugal, the second form is used a lot: "Tu" and "Vós". This format causes even more strangeness to the ears of Brazilians, who usually use "Você" and "Nós". They may be similar, but the conjugation of verbs makes it difficult to understand in speech, this improves when written. Lately, the Portuguese are starting to say "Geladeira" which is a word we also use to say "Refrigerator". Well, I think compression can be even better in writing, we learned some words that are the same as those used in Portugal, but many others are different.

There are no dialects in Portuguese and absolutely no difference between verbs conjugation accross all areas where Portuguese is spoken.

I’m sure there’re still many in the mainland speaking it to the point it’s 10 times more people than HK, but the language is kinda in danger ☠️

@@jclau3616”In danger” the 📈200million+ speakers:

a lot*

There's no single British flavour of English. Talk to a Scouser and someone from Hackney and someone from Glasgow.

@@MatthiasGorgens True, I was mostly refering to the standard form.

Exactly. Brazilian and European Portuguese are not only totally different in the streets, but follow different standards, and have different translations of books, dubbing for media, and separate versions of product information as well as of most services (when available in both countries). There's no point in making a one-size-fits-all of what will be a version which *in practice* follows either the Brazilian or the European standard. Instead of "improving" the communication, it would deprive the user of relevant information.

Not to mention there is so much to nitpick. He didn't explain the last 2 options for Portuguese. There is no point in having a shared language flag for Hindi and Urdu, because you would have to have separate language options anyway for the script alone. On the other hand, he acknowledges the different writing systems for Chinese (even though they write mostly the same language). I get why he wants an amalgamation of the 5 flags but that completely ignores a) that in HongKong the common written language is actually a form of written Mandarin, not written Cantonese, so the HongKong flag isn't wrong, but b) that there is so much political baggage that comes with this that makes any discussion/attempt at a crazy flag like that just a fun but pointless and disconnected endeavor. The Korean one also looks mostly like the North Korean flag, and given the political situation, it's ridiculous to assume South Koreans would be okay with their language being represented with what is mostly a North Korean flag. All in all, he doesn't address his own question of whether or not there even should be language flags, nor what the implications are behind them... and it shows when he engages in what just comes off as the pointless musings of some out-of-touch white guy. No offense

@@uamsnof haha yup, right on the money. Overall this is not a really serious video, although it weirdly made some waves with people I know. I think this way of treating the topic might be more interesting if you're not a particularly practically minded person and your focus is more, "Ooh, pretty flags, how can I mash them up!?" If the whole thing is nothing but an excuse to scheme up weird flag mash ups then suddenly it makes way more sense.

@@recurse His mistake was, that he didn't have much of an intro short of "Have you ever installed a software, looked at the language selection with all the little flags, and wondered .... ?" No, I have never had that problem, lol, the premise is already based on an unrelatable (and uncommon?) experience. And then he jumps right into the decision making... but without establishing any kind of criterion. He toys with the idea of number of speakers, ... but then doesn't follow through or consider the difference between native speakers and 2L speakers, ... and then leaves out some of the most relevant languages for this question: Spanish and French! Hell, if it really was just for the fun of mashing up flags, then at least go into some of the aspects of visual design and symbolism other than "I like this because it looks like a squid..." Or what's the letter that he used for the Arabic flag? Why did you pick that letter? Regardless of the premise, it was an idea with so much potential for stimulating conversation or even just light-hearted fun... but just poorly thought-out and executed... You know a video was just not good when it leaves you annoyed and worse-off for having watched it, rather than engaged and stimulated.

@@uamsnof haha yup, sums it up.

There is 19 countries besides Spain who speak spanish as a primary language, and since vox and other spain parties have some interestingly diminishing opinion in this, and since latinoamericans dont have a conjoined flag or symbols, i think is for the better.

There are probably more Afrikaans-speaking people in Australia than in Botswana.

Dude, there’s like four of them in total. In Botswana at least. Namibia is a different story but it’s already such an unpopulated country.

I know that Aus, NZ, UK all probably have more Afrikaans people in them than Botswana or Zimbabwe but I'm just saying Afrikaans is not only a South African language

I looked it up and it's true. About 50000 vs 8000.

It used to be part of South Africa so not very different as far as I know. Never been to Namibië but almost never seen any Afrikaners from Namibië who is proud of their culture and traditions

Exactly. As a portuguese, I don't mind when I enter a website and the portuguese option has the brazillian flag, and then when I read it its in brazillian portuguese. It just makes sense. Now when you see Portugal's flag and then the text is brazillian portuguese, it feels a bit weird at first xd, because I wasn't expecting it. But in the end portuguese is portuguese. I read my websites in english anyways because usually there's translation errors in both ahah

Do you understand how many resources & how much time it takes to translate & localize all of that content to each of those dialects?

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I think a flag with all 5 main English countries combined would be good but the one on the vid misses NZ

How does this work on language learning apps then

There actually are some cases, where you have reason to select it, even though you don't know it ...but I wholeheartedly agree.

@@jinjunliu2401 On a language learning app, you use the names, in the language that the app is in. How is that not glaringly obvious?

@@ZarlanTheGreen I guess he meant the course for the language you learn, not the app's usage language. Because there you usually would see flags for quicker navigation instead of just a written name in the usage language.

@@tovarishcheleonora8542 ... Yes, obviously. And that's what my response *_obviously_* responded to. How could it possibly mean anything else? It makes absolutely no kind of sense, unless it was doing so.

But every country has it's own native language, and every language has it's own origin of country. So you technically can use flags for that purpose.

@@tovarishcheleonora8542 You either didn't watch the video or didn't understand it. Many languages don't have a single country of origin (or current speakership), and many countries have more than one official language. It's not unambiguous. Example: German has originated in the areas of current-day Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Belgium... So using the flag of Germany for German is disregarding the equally important number of native speakers in other countries. Switzerland has four official languages. Using the Swiss flag for any of these four languages doesn't tell you much. So you might as well just not use flags altogether.

you can't overcome the allure of visual representation

@@FlagAnthem then something representing the script should be used, maybe.

The mystery about Esparanto, is that people who claim to like languages, like Esparanto. Anyone who likes Esparanto, hates languages, and they should just be honest about it.

@@ZarlanTheGreen What? That's not true in the slightest. I like Esperanto the same way I like all languages of the world the same, I'm fighting for my minority native tongue just as much. Bad faith, bad faith everywhere on your part.

@@Game_Hero The whole point of Esparanto, is for people to learn Esparanto, so that they don't have to bother learning any other languages. It is simplified to remove all the depth and richness (and I'm not talking about irregular conjugations) of natural languages, it has no culture... (also, a language made to be the universal language, but it's completely European-based, but that's a different issue) There is no reason to waste time and resources, on learning Esparanto, rather than learning a real language ...or a funny and quirky conlang, that has unusual and interesting aspects, like Toki Pona. (not a sensible language, to use as a main language, but one that could be interesting, on a hobby level)

@@ZarlanTheGreen "real language" the condescendence is real with this one and with all the artistic content made for it. Of course it has "no culture" that's the whole point : making a neutral international lingua franca without favouring some countries at the expenses of others. South America has european official languages, Africa has european official languages, parts of Asia have european official languages, might as well make one that doesn't favour anglo-centrism and anglo cultural imperialism since everyone is ok with speaking an european language like english. It's to prevent the current anglo-centrism that favours english-speaking countries right now.

​@@ZarlanTheGreenalmost none of this is true 🙃 The point of Esperanto is to provide a neutral lingua franca, that is easy to learn and it can also be a starting point of learning the languages it is based on. I'm not sure what richness means to you, but Esperanto does have its particular ways of expression, as any pther language, and it also evolves continually thanks to its community. Esperanto does have a culture, the culture of esperantists and there are original artistic works produced in esperanto, as well as communities of speakers. The eurocentrism is true though.

I completely agree. It is called "English" for a reason.

Agreed. And as a French-speaking Québécois, I would also object to using the maple leaf on some made-up flag representing English.

I'm English and passionate for the English flag to be shown. The UK flag is contextually used wrong a lot of the time unfortuantely.

I think using eyn (ع) is a better option

@@YAWSSSSSS yeah obviously. Like wtf is the other even support to mean. It just reminds me of theف for farsi

لعبة الضاد (lughat al dad) is actually used to refer to the Arabic language.

Leafde yn Fryslân by Sjoerd Ensa!

Should we just use words? I mean yes languages is just words, and to use their names to describe them is all that is needed. I just think it's fun to have something like Flags or other things to represent something that is otherwise pretty boring.

@@roallposselt4527 Languages are boring? Writing systems are boring?

@@gotoastalI think they meant long lists of names are boring. To which I'd mostly agree, yeah.

Flags shouldn't even exist to be fair. Languages represent the natural mode of communication of people, while flags represent the oppression of the state over those people

Culture flags should absolutely exist though. It'll help show the different peoples who make up a single country. Like in South Africa. I hate how foreigners seem to think everyone here is the same peoples with the exact same culture and cultural practices. The SA flag is just a country flag. Using it as the only flag to represent a language or culture of a people in South Africa just doesn't cut it. For example, a Zulu would not want his culture and people to be represented by cultural flag that has Xhosa symbolism on it. Because they aren't the same peoples. So each peoples should have a flag that represents them. The Griekwa Colourds have a flag of their own. The White Boer Afrikaners have a flag of their own. Why does it matter? Because we aren't all the same people. We are all a South African people but we are also each a seperate people from eachother.

Just like that, but maybe just drop the flags altogether; they are just distracting from the text.

Wow, you're just one of those who hate the Russian minority. Based on what you said.

Why not Castile‘s flag? Spanish is castellano and Spain has several regional languages.

Why should it be Portugal's flag when the content is usually not in the European variety or aimed at them

@@AChildressABright Agreed. Spanish, or Castilian, is native to Castile. I wish the term "Spanish" in reference to the language did not exist. Calling Castlian "Spanish" is like calling English "British", which no one does.

@@FOLIPE Portugese language comes from Portugal that's why. It's widely understood across Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, etc. that the language comes from there so it the flag of Portugal representing the language

The squid eating flag looks one sided but the worst part of all I found was neither flag represents the English language. It should be this one, this is _the_ flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

That's just the tip of the iceberg. There are far more problems. Using flags, to represent languages, is a fools game. It makes no sense, and has tons of unsolvable problems.

There are no ways to solve the flag problems. Just don't use flags.

Así es, no todos hablamos inglés, en lo personal NO me interesa aprenderlo, somos 600 millones de Hispanos y eso es suficiente.

Nobody should be getting mad at you if anything this is the British’s fault ❤

​@@YAWSSSSSSNot really our fault. The solution is as straight forward, use the place of the language origin and it works best for everyone.

We should use Pakistani flag for Punjabi

@@brad5426 it's the fault of the founders of Pakistan who ignored all the indigenous languages of Pakistan and preferred Urdu

@@Moon-initiative agreed and google translate should have Shahmukhi not Gurmukhi, or both!

Except in point of fact, Appalachian English is actually the closest living dialect in terms of phonetics to Elizabethan English, making it more traditional than any living British dialect.

St. George's flag.

​@@aidanking4197that is not true, American English in all its forms has retained some old features of the language and lost others for example: 1.Old features retained "Rhoticity" pronouncing the "R" sound in words like "hard, car, farm etc and use of old vocabulary such Fall instead autumn. 2. Features lost the use of words such thou, thee, ye, thy etc and pronunciation of words such as questions as kwe-si-yon instead kwe-shin. These not all the examples of the features lost and retained just a few of them. My main point is American and British English have both lost and retained old features of the language just different features. As for the claim of American English being more traditional the vedios on UKposts talking about original pronunciation from the Elizabethan era using shakespeare's plays, that form English seemed to be more similar to the West country accent in the south-east of England(Hagrid from harry potter's accent or The Pirate accent in pirate movies) and the Irish accent.

@@mzekelosebeni8989 They're saying "Appalachian English", not "Standard American English", which are 2 different dialects. What is true for American English might not be true in Appalachian English.

@@alfaseng I think u should read again what I typed in the first paragraph i typed "American English in all its forms" which means I am not talking exclusively about standard/General American English I was talking about all accents and dialects in America, including the Appalachian. And could u please read everything I wrote maybe u will understand the point I was making.

English existed before the UK

Shouldnt it be the English flag then? white background with red cross

Yeah no it should be the English (England) flag not the United Kingdom flag. The U.K flags represents for constituent countries in one. Two of which have their own native languages, Scotland with Scottish Gaelic and Wales with Welsh. Arguable even Northern Ireland with Irish Gaelic

@@PlaylistProleteriat I would agree if you want to be specific but if I was just thinking of national flags

No it should be with our flag because we have more speakers and because it’s funny

Cruel. All the flags should be represented by their country or region of origin. The St. George's flag for English, the Portuguese flag for Portugal and the Castilian flag for Castilian (Spanish).

@@noahbrock349 Move out grandpa, the kids have evolved your tired language away from your old, tired dialects