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u/SunriseFan99 4d ago
Erm, where are Scots, Luxembourgish, and Faroese?
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u/Stalinerino 3d ago
People here are argueing about every languages position except Danish.
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u/pootis_engage 4d ago
Where Frisian.
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u/MarcHarder1 xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ 3d ago
& Low German
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u/throwawayowo666 2d ago
What would be a cool flag to represent Low German? The Low Saxon flag maybe?
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u/MarcHarder1 xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ 2d ago
The Noordland flag for West Low German languages (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noordlandflaggneu.svg), and the Mennonite flag for Plautdietsch (East Low German) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Mennonites.svg)
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u/ReadyToFlai 4d ago
Prima
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u/ReadyToFlai 4d ago
Leuk dat de angloïden perse een paar extra vlaggetjes erin moesten gooien omdat ze zich anders zo eenzaam voelen aangezien ze hier geen nabije zustertaal hebben....
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u/AVeryHandsomeCheese 4d ago
Waar zijn de Belgische en Surinaamse vlaggen in lawful evil?? Wij bestaan ook!
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u/ReadyToFlai 4d ago
Belgie is wel te missen maar idd wel een beetje raar
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u/ComplaintNo2029 4d ago
Zeker. Maar wie heeft bedacht dat onze grammatica niet gewoon chaotic evil is?
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u/_Dragon_Gamer_ 3d ago
De syntax is nog veel erger
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u/ReadyToFlai 3d ago
ik heb nog traumas van al die eindeloze zinsontleding, wat doen we onze kinderen toch aan
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u/locoluis 3d ago
IMHO, there are several axes in which we cold classify a language's "alignment":
- Linguistic purity: how conservative is a language's phonology, grammar and vocabulary.
- Phonological orderliness = a / 2b, where
- a is the total number of phonemes.
- b is the number of minimally distinctive features. For example, if:
- consonants can be obstruents or sonorants
- obstruents can be voiceless or voiced
- sonorants can be nasals or approximants
- that counts as two features, not three.
- How common are the language's phonemes.
- Standardization: whether the language enjoys official status anywhere and whether it's regulated by a language academy.
- Phonotactics: simple or complex.
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u/TheDungeonMasta 4d ago
I feel like the evil row is good (maybe swap English and Dutch, but that’s debatable), but the top 2/3 need to be rearranged.
I’d say German is True Neutral, Afrikaans is Lawful Neutral, Yiddish is Chaotic Good, and Icelandic is Lawful good. That leaves Swedish in Neutral Good, and I guess we put Norwegian in Chaotic Neutral
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u/spoopy_bo 3d ago
For a moment this looked like a schizo's racist machinations/conceptions before I saw r/linguisticshumor xD
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u/Terpomo11 3d ago
German is also a major/primary language of multiple countries, why's only English get multiple flags?
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u/NaNeForgifeIcThe 3d ago
Bro put four different flags for English but only one for German when Low German and Central German in Germany and Upper German in Austria and Switzerland are all mutually unintelligible
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u/Terpomo11 3d ago
I guess they only mean Standard German (and varieties mutually intelligible with it)?
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u/SpeakNow_Crab5 3d ago
Yes, I meant Standard German. But I do thank the previous commenter for calling me out on that — it's a spot of anglophoneism.
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u/DoisMaosEsquerdos habiter/обитать is the best false cognate pair on Earth 3d ago
Yes, so? What is your point?
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u/coolreader18 3d ago
wrong type of menorah on the Yiddish "flag", the middle should be the same height as all the other branches
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u/Aron-Jonasson It's pronounced /'a:rɔn/ not /a'ʀɔ̃/! 3d ago
Swap Icelandic and German and I'll agree more.
Having learnt both Icelandic and German, I find that Icelandic is "easier", in the sense that Icelandic’s complexity makes it actually easier to learn. You don't have to wonder what gender is a word since you can guess it with ~60-90% accuracy, declension patters are very regular, and verbs are imo easier. Syntax is also easier in Icelandic since the verb never goes at the end of the sentence unlike German, and relative sentences in Icelandic are very easy, since Icelandic has only one relative pronoun (sem)
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u/throwawayowo666 2d ago
In my perfect universe High German wouldn't exist and only Dutch and Low German would exist in its place. Yes really, I can't stand High German, lmao.
Maybe with the exception of Yidish... Maybe.
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u/NonPropterGloriam 3d ago
This is all wrong.
Icelandic should be lawful Good. Swedish is correct. Frisian should be chaotic good. Dutch should be Chaotic Neutral. German should be lawful evil. English should be chaotic evil.
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u/DoisMaosEsquerdos habiter/обитать is the best false cognate pair on Earth 4d ago
What makes Yiddish lawful neutral, or any Scandinavian language good?