"I mean, we just use different alphabets and have slightly different standardizations, other than that we understand each other perfectly and have around 99% intelligible vocabulary, but noooo, we're not one language!!!"
Please accept finnish for the combined Sweden/Finland flag. Finnish is a national minority language in Sweden. There are more finnish speakers in Sweden than swedish speakers in Finland.
The fact that there was no rifle threw me off of Mozambique, and what country is that on the right side? Neither Eswatini or Lesotho's flags resemble that.
It was the flag of a Bantustan. Bantustans were purported to be independent countries during Apartheid South Africa - in an attempt to deny citizenship-based rights to "Bantu" South Africans, while ensuring that the land reserved for them couldn't support the "national" population. Thus, "citizens" of the "Bantustans" would have little choice but to go find work in (the rest of) South Africa, but without rights of residency in cities, or any democratic claims, for example.
Language ability does not mean that language is spoken. Most of Belgium can speak English as well that doesn't mean 49% of Belgium speaks English on a regular basis. In the same way the fact that Flemish people have to learn French in school does not mean they speak French on a regular basis.
Tsonga is a bit harsh considering there are roughly 3.5 million speakers, most of whom are found in South Africa which isn't part of the flag. Great quiz otherwise
The German-Swiss-Austrian flag, the China-Singapore-Taiwan-Macau-Hong Kong flag, the Serbo-Croatian flag, the Sweden-Finland flag, the Uganda-Tanzania-Kenya flag, and the Namibia-South Africa flag all look like a coat of arms from Europe after about four generations of people from ducal or royal families getting married.
The Tsonga flag is highly erroneous and must be fixed. Gazankulu was never a legitimate entity and shouldn't be used, and I cannot identify the other flag. If it is supposed to be Mozambique, then it should be fixed.
Can we have a Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India combination for Tamil? Even though it isnt a national language in India, it is one of the Schedule Eight languages in the nation
Excellent idea and excecution! I am bad at flags. And well at languages too compared to others on the site (can only name a few besides the germanic and romance ones). And got all but the bottom two.
While you can consider Serbo-Croatian as one language, neither of the countries recognize it as an official language. Only country where Serbo-Croatian was a language was Yugoslavia, so the Croat, Serbian, Montenegrin and Bosnian flags shouldn't be here
Still, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian all are varieties of the one language that is Serbo-Croatian, thus Serbo-Croatian is spoken in the respective countries. Similar to British and American English both being varieties of English...
I get wanting to make things a bit harder, but do we really have to have the flag of an apartheid Bantustan? Is there a single speaker of Tsonga who identifies with this flag rather than the flag of the Republic of South Africa? I don't cry racism very often, but... this is pretty patently racist. (Before anyone comments, please go read up on what the apartheid government of ZA did between 1970 and the end of apartheid in 1994.)
This feels a little messy; in particular, it would be nice and consistent if it were all national flags; by including the regional flag of Catalonia, you prompt the question about why you have the flag of Canada for French instead of the flag of Quebec. Or why Switzerland isn't considered for French (or some of the French-speaking cantons.
If it's based on "officialness", that's really a pretty squirrelly attribute and you're doomed to inconsistency, with flags of the U.S. and the balkan nations, in particular.
At first I was like Wow only 4% got Korean? But now I'm reading that the flags were changed and they didn't want to reset the stats. Anyway I would've never gotten Tigrinya
Why not Belgium incuded in the dutch? 60% of Belgian population speaks flemish (which is a variant of dutch), only 40% or less speaks French. Common mistake because they only see the capital Brussels where a majority speaks French.
I'm confused to how only 11% of people guess Korean, even if u don't know the language, I thought most ppl would at least try to type in the country name + an N or an Eese, which is common isn't a lot of languages named for a country
Im pretty sure i saw a comment from the maker of the quiz that said “tsonga has been replaced with korean but the percentages dont reset” or something similar to that
Ah this makes sense. I was going to make a 'surprised about the low Korean score' myself but it turns out that I have taken this quiz myself some time in the past and dropped that one last time too. Was confused how until I saw your comment.
You need the one that only 10% of the people get to get 5 points.
I will probably never remember it. But who knows, maybe in 10 years haha so for now 4 points it is. (trying to get all the flag quizzes to 5 points, now that I can finally name them all)
I think the quiz would benefit from being more consistent. Why is the Swiss flag not part of Francophonie when it is part of the combined Italian-language flag? Why are the french-speaking african coutnries not represented in the Francophonie flag? Why are spanish-speaking latin american countries not represented in the combined Spanish-language flag? Same for English with many countries, etc.
Something is weird with this one. Today I took the quiz first time after many months. Apparently I had 15/16 on my last try. Got 16/16 this time and it shows Korean was the one I didn't get the previous time and I see no possibility of how I could have not recognised the Korean flags and language on my previous try.
For anyone wondering why Korean is low on the stats list currently, Quizmaster stated earlier that the creator of the quiz replaced the Tsonga language with Korean, due to the Tsonga flag having ties with apartheid. (July 3, 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld
- average Serbo-Croatian speaker
More belgians speak Dutch as a 1st language but when you add all the languages they can speak, French is more spoken.
However I do agree with you that Belgium flag should be added to Dutch language.
me: ethiopian
Very enjoyable
If it's based on "officialness", that's really a pretty squirrelly attribute and you're doomed to inconsistency, with flags of the U.S. and the balkan nations, in particular.
I will probably never remember it. But who knows, maybe in 10 years haha so for now 4 points it is. (trying to get all the flag quizzes to 5 points, now that I can finally name them all)