LINGUO-GRAPHIC
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LINGUISTIC FLAGS (1980-81)
Here the projects of flags of
languages on the base of linguistic kindship are presented, using colors of
national flags and common national colors of kindred nationalities.
IMAGINARY
FLAGS (1981)
: PROJECTS of LINGUISTIC and NON-LINGUISTIC FLAGS of kindred
nationalities
The big flags in the center represent the images of 9
main world language families. From left to right 3 row by 3: Indo-European,
Ural, Altaic, Chamito-Semitic, Dravidian, Tibetan-Chinese, Bantuan,
Austronesian, Austro-Asian languages.
In the left
and right outermost columns there are flags of Indo-European and some other
languages. Left column: Caucasean, Romance, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic,
New-Slavic. Right column: Korean, Japanese, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Armenian,
Albanian, Greek.
The other smaller flags represents the images of
united countries according the principles of language alliance, historical
equity and regional unity (as a perspective from the point of view of 1980).
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The images of 9 main world language families,
besides American Indian families
from the previous picture
(in brackets main typical
nationalities or region of this linguistic unity are presented)
Indo-European Ural
Altaic
(Europe, Slavic, Indo-Aryian) (Finno-Ugrian, Hungarian, Lappish
etc) (Turkish, Tartarian,
Mongol etc)
Afra-Asiatic
Dravidian Sino-Tibetan
(Arabian, Jewish, Berberian) (South of India, Sri
Lanka) (China, Thibet,
Burma)
Bantuan
Austronesian Austro-Asiatic
(Central Africa, Congo,
Angola) (Indonesia,
Madagascar)
(Indo-China)
Here
are flags of groops of Indoeuropean family (in more
detail)
Romance Celtic Germanic Baltic Slavic
(Italian,Spanian,French) (Irish,Bretonian,Wellsh) (German,Sweden,Enlgish etc)
(Latvian,Lithuanian) (Russian,Polish,Serbian etc)
Armenian Albanian Greek Iranian
Indo-Aryan
(Armenian) (Albanian) (Greek) (Persian, Afghanian etc) (Indo-Aryian)
and some other
languages
Caucasean Korean Japanese
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The flags of united countries
according the principles of language alliance,
historical equity and regional unity
(as
a perspective from the point of view of 1980).
.
Scandinavia United Holland
Great Germany
West Slavia Soviet
Slavia South Slavia
(Scandia without Finland) (Netherlands+N.Belgium) (Un.Germany+Austria) (Czechoslov.+Poland) (Ukraine,Byelorus.+Cent.Russia) (Yugoslavia+Bulgaria)
Numidia Assyria Babylonia United Oman
United Yemen Great
Egypt
(Algeria+Tunisia+W.Lybia)
(Syria+Jordania+Lebanon)
(Iraq+Kuwait)
(Oman+Katar+Emirats)
(S.+N.Yemen)
(Egypt+E.Lybia+N.Sudan)
Maurusia Libreona Federation Mali Federation Ghana Nigerian Union Sudanga
(Moroc.+Mauritan.+W.Sahara)
(Liberia+S-Leone+d’Voire)
(Mali+Senegal+Guinea) (Ghana+Burkina+Togo)
(Nigeria+Niger+Benin)
(S.Sudan+N.Uganda)
Congo
Union
Zambezia
Angola
Mozambique Central
African Un. Tanzanian Union
(Zaire+Congo+Gabon)
(Zambia+Zimbabwe+Malawi)
(Angola+N.Nanibia)
(Mozambique) (C.A,R+Chad+Cameroon) (Tanzania+Burundi,Ruanda)
Bushmenia East Antilles United Guiana Haitana Great Columbia Peruvia
(Botswana+S.Nanibia)
(Barbados+islands)
(Guiana+Surinam+Guyana)
(Haiti+Dominicana) (Columbia+Ecuador+Venezuela) (Peru+Bolivia)
Tibetia Indo-China Central American Un. La Plata
(Thibet) (Vietnam+Laos+Cambodia) (Union Cent.American country) (Argentina+Chile+Uruguay+Paraguay)
