Comment by mpeg

1 day ago

Catalan, the language, does not have a flag. As a native speaker (of a dialect) who is not from Catalonia I would much rather the language be represented by the Spanish national flag. Although people from Andorra might also not love that.

Languages and flags don't mix well.

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celebdor  1 day ago

All the areas where Catalan is spoken as a mothertongue:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alghero

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balearic_Islands

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Orientales

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_Community

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragon

All of them share the coat of arms of the crown of Aragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Crown_of_A... . Thus using the "four red pallets on a gold background" represents all the speakers in different European countries.

carstenhag  1 day ago

I am not sure if I got you, are you aware of the cultural/political issues around it? There's no flag for the language (as it's used at many places), but almost everyone will be happy with a commonly known flag they can identify with. A Valencian will be fine with a Catalunya flag :)

  • mpeg  1 day ago

    The cultural/political issues are deeper than you'd think, there are some within Catalonia that would claim all of us Catalan speakers as part of the same cultural umbrella, negating our own cultural background as derivative.

    That's why I say that I personally (as a Mallorcan) would much prefer the language to be associated with a Spanish flag than a Catalan flag. Some people would agree and some would disagree – ultimately the best thing is to not link flags to languages anyway.

    To give you another example from Issen, they're also using the American flag for English which is probably even more controversial :)

diggan  1 day ago

Academically, maybe it doesn't have a flag. But the de facto flag is the Senyera and I don't think a lot of people wouldn't recognize it as such in Spain.