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maam feddit.uk maam@feddit.uk
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OfCourseNot fedia.io OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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As far as I know there are only 24 official languages in the EU...

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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
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As far as I know there are only 24 official languages in the EU...

"European languages", not official languages of the EU.

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erebion news.erebion.eu erebion@news.erebion.eu
Joined: 2025-11-20
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Seeing languages such as Norwegian with an EU flag looks weird. :D

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OfCourseNot fedia.io OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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"European languages", not official languages of the EU.

It says 'official' in the title. If it were every (the word 'every' is also in the title) European language then there are many more than 36.

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RobotToaster mander.xyz RobotToaster@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-09-13
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Do you have a list of the languages show?

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turdas suppo.fi turdas@suppo.fi
Joined: 2023-06-17
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I think the Estonian one ("Osta euroopat") is wrong and translates to "Buy parts of Europe".

I'm not fluent (just Finnish) so I don't know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. "Osta Euroopast" might be close but would AFAIK translate to "Buy from Europe" rather than "Buy European".

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rah hilariouschaos.com rah@hilariouschaos.com
Joined: 2025-06-07
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"European languages", not official languages of the EU.

Why is the EU flag behind every phrase?

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Barley_Man sopuli.xyz Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-08-31
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As far as I know there are only 24 official languages in the EU...

Well one of these is Armenian. Armenia is neither in the EU nor in Europe except for the broadest possible, and I would say very dubious, definition of Europe. I feel like including Georgia but especially Armenia is hard to argue except from a cultural perspective where these nations are Christian and therefore sort of belong more in the European christian sphere rather than the west Asian Islamic sphere.

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Pilon23 feddit.dk Pilon23@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-12
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It says 'official' in the title. If it were every (the word 'every' is also in the title) European language then there are many more than 36.

Every official European language. Not every official language of the EU. Georgian, among others, meets the criteria of the former, but not of the latter

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matelt feddit.uk matelt@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-03-09
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Ok now do it in proto Indo-European!

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OfCourseNot fedia.io OfCourseNot@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-03
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Every official European language. Not every official language of the EU. Georgian, among others, meets the criteria of the former, but not of the latter

My country has four official languages not represented there. Georgia and Armenia are in Asia not in Europe. All of these have an EU flag as background. I think op is very confused with all these concepts and thus they've made a very confusing 'meme'.

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anaVal lemmy.dbzer0.com anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
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I think the Estonian one ("Osta euroopat") is wrong and translates to "Buy parts of Europe". I'm not fluent (just Finnish) so I don't know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. "Osta Euroopast" might be close but would AFAIK translate to "Buy from Europe" rather than "Buy European".

It translates to "Buy Europe". You are correct with "Osta Euroopast" but I think "Osta Euroopalist" or "Osta Euroopalikku" might also work.

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Tonuka feddit.org Tonuka@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-04-07
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My country has four official languages not represented there. Georgia and Armenia are in Asia not in Europe. All of these have an EU flag as background. I think op is very confused with all these concepts and thus they've made a very confusing 'meme'.

that's not the EU flag, that's the flag of europe. Even Russia is part of the council of Europe and uses that flag

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OfCourseNot fedia.io OfCourseNot@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-03
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that's not the EU flag, that's the flag of europe. Even Russia is part of the council of Europe and uses that flag

Fair enough. Although Russia is not a member anymore.

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Europellinore europe.pub Europellinore@europe.pub
Joined: 2025-03-31
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Design a sticker in different languages: https://hardno.eu/pick-language/euro-sticker

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ntd_quiet lemmy.dbzer0.com ntd_quiet@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-12
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Interesting how many of them start with a , which I'm assuming is a stop, maybe velar? Like, velar stop + mid/low back vowel. I don't do much etymology or cross-language linguistics, but I'm guessing those are . . . probably Slavic, but I see Dutch there too and maybe Spanish. The ones starting with vowels (aside from French) are I guess from Nordic countries? I think I was expecting (to identify) more romance languages. Neat!

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ModCen feddit.uk moderatecentrist@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-10-09
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It warms my heart

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium...

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WIZARD POPE💫 lemmy.world Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-08
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Love how kupuj evropsko is there beasically 4 times.

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Staff piefed.world Staff@piefed.world
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zaphod sopuli.xyz zaphod@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-04
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Portuguese?

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spirinolas lemmy.world spirinolas@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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Portuguese?

That's Compra Europeu

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