Do you recognize this flag?
Here are a few hints:
- This is the flag of a group of people whose language is classified as an isolate (it doesn’t belong to any family).
- The blue represents the sea and the sky, the white represents snow.
- In their traditional culture, the men never shave and thus wear full beards and moustaches. Women tatoo their lips.
Can you guess?
January 31st, 2009 at 10:49 am
I really have no idea! But the red shape definitely looks like a Breton hermin!
January 31st, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Ainu, people of northern Japan.
February 1st, 2009 at 9:36 am
Well done Scott! It is indeed Ainu and it is also the latest dictionary in Freelang’s collection. It was made by Charles Lippert, who is also the co-author of the Ojibwe dictionary.