The primordial rag dipped in the blood of a conquered enemy and lifted high on a stickthat wordless shout of victory and dominionis a motif repeated millions of times in human existence. Flags incarnate the overcoming of nature, of fellow humans, of selfbut an overcoming through comprehension and assimilation as often as by conquest and obliteration.
Whitney Smith, Flags Through the Ages and Across the World
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Iceland |
Icelandic |
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India |
Hindi (official), English (official), Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all recognized by the constitution). Dialects, 1,652 |
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Indonesia |
Bahasa Indonesia (official), Dutch, English, and more than 583 languages and dialects |
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Iran |
Farsi (Persian), Azari, Kurdish, Arabic |
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Iraq |
Arabic (official) and Kurdish |
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Ireland |
English, Irish Gaelic |
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Isle of Man |
English, Manx |
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Israel |
Hebrew (official), Arabic, English |
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Italy |
Italian; small German-, French-, and Slovene-speaking minorities |
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Ivory Coast |
French (official), and African languages (especially Diaula) |
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Jamaica |
English, Jamaican Creole |
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Japan |
Japanese |
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The Bailiwick of Jersey |
English, French |
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Jordan |
Arabic (official), English |
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Kazakhstan |
Kazak (Qazaq), official language spoken by over 40% of population; Russian, official language spoken by two-thirds of population and used in everyday business |
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Kenya |
English (official), Swahili (national), and several other languages spoken by 25 ethnic groups |
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Kiribati |
English (official), I-Kiribati (Gilbertese) |
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Korea, North |
Korean |
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Korea, South |
Korean |
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Kuwait |
Arabic (official), English |
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Kyrgyzstan |
Kyrgyz (official); Russian is de facto second language of communication |
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Laos |
Lao (official), French, English |
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Latvia |
Latvian |
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Lebanon |
Arabic (official), French, English |
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Lesotho |
English and Sesotho (official); also Zulu and Xhosa |
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Liberia |
English (official) and tribal dialects |
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Libya |
Arabic, Italian and English widely understood in major cities |
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Liechtenstein |
German (official), Alemmanic dialect |
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Lithuania |
Lithuanian (official), Polish, Russian |
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Luxembourg |
Luxermbourgish, French, German |