Ethnic flag

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An ethnic flag is a flag that symbolises a certain ethnic group. Ethnic flags are often introduced to the ethnic community through the respective cultural or political ethnic movements. An ethnic flag can be either recognised or not by the central government.

They are popular among ethnic minorities and some ethnic majorities especially in multi-ethnic countries.

Some ethnic flags are banned by the central governments of a nation because they are also the flags of separatist groups, or are perceived as being such by the central government.

Contents 1 Africa 1.1 North Africa 1.2 Subsaharan Africa 2 Americas 2.1 Native-Americans 2.2 European-Americans 2.3 Hispanic-Americans (Mostly Mestizos) 2.4 African-Americans 2.5 African/European-Americans (Mulattos) 2.6 African/Native-Americans (Zambos) 3 Asia 3.1 Middle East 3.2 Caucasus 3.3 South Asia 3.4 East Asia 4 Europe 4.1 Basque 4.2 Indo-European 4.2.1 Albanian 4.2.2 Celtic 4.2.3 Germanic 4.2.4 Greek 4.2.5 Indo-Aryan 4.2.6 Romanic 4.2.7 Slavic 5 Central Eurasia 5.1 Uralic 5.1.1 Finnic 5.1.2 Lappic 5.1.3 Ugric 5.2 Altaic 5.2.1 Turkic 5.2.2 Mongolic 6 Oceania 6.1 Austronesian 6.1.1 Polynesian 6.2 Papuan 6.2.1 Melanesian 7 Notes 8 See also 9 References

[edit] Africa

[edit] North Africa

Berbers (w:Algeria)[1]

w:Copts (w:Egypt)

[edit] Subsaharan Africa

Ashanti (w:Ghana)[2]	Flag of Ewe (w:Ghana, w:Togo, w:Benin)	w:Ogoni (w:Nigeria)
w:Bubi (w:Equatorial Guinea)	Bakonjo (w:Uganda)[3]	w:Maasai (w:Kenya, w:Tanzania)
Fur (Darfur, Sudan)

[edit] Americas

See also:

• w:Flags of Native Americans in the United States
• w:Flags of Aboriginal peoples of Canada
• w:Flags of French-speaking people of North America

[edit] Native-Americans

Flag of the Jatibonicu Taíno Tribal Nation of Borikén (w:Puerto Rico)	Flag of the w:indigenous peoples in Colombia	Kuna (w:Panama, w:Colombia)
Flag of the w:Quechua [4](w:Peru, w:Bolivia, w:Ecuador)	Flag of the w:Aymara (w:Bolivia, w:Peru, w:Chile, w:Argentina)	w:Mapuche (w:Argentina, w:Chile)

[edit] European-Americans

Flag of Acadiana[5] (United States)

Gaucho Peoples of South Brazil

[edit] Hispanic-Americans (Mostly Mestizos)

[edit] African-Americans

Flag of African-Americans[6] (United States)

[edit] African/European-Americans (Mulattos)

Mulatto flag:w:Mulatto(w:United States, w:Hispanic America, w:Brazil)

[edit] African/Native-Americans (Zambos)

w:Garifuna (w:Honduras, w:Belize, w:Guatemala)

[edit] Asia

[edit] Middle East

w:Iraqi Turkmens/Turks (Iraq)	w:Khorasan Turkmens/Turks (Iran)	Flag of Druze People (Syria, Lebanon, Israel)	Assyrians (Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran)
Khuzestan Arabs (Iran)

[edit] Caucasus

w:Lezgins (Azerbaijan, Russia)

w:Kumyks (Russia)

w:Nogais (Russia)

[edit] South Asia

w:Pashtun people (Pakistan)	w:Bodo people (India)	w:Bnei Menashe (India, Myanmar)	w:Tamils (India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore)
w:Akha (Thailand)	w:Khmer Kampuchea Krom (Vietnam)	w:Chagossians (British Indian Ocean Territory, Mauritius)

[edit] East Asia

Li and Miao (China)

Ainu (Japan, Russia)

[edit] Europe

[edit] Basque

Basques (Spain and France)

[edit] Indo-European

[edit] Albanian

w:Arbëreshë (Italy)

[edit] Celtic

Flag of w:Brittany[7]

Flag of w:Cornwall[8]

[edit] Germanic

w:Danish minority of Southern Schleswig (Germany)

(West) w:Frisians of the Netherlands

East w:Frisians of Germany

North w:Frisians of Germany

w:Germans of w:Northern Schleswig (Denmark)

[edit] Greek

Greek minority of Albania

[edit] Indo-Aryan

Roma people[9] (most European countries, Brazil)

[edit] Romanic

Catalonians(Spain)

[edit] Slavic

w:Sorbs[10] (Eastern Germany)

w:Kashubians[11] (Poland)

Flag of the Bulgarian minority in Serbia

[edit] Central Eurasia

[edit] Uralic

[edit] Finnic

Erzya people (Russia)

w:Ingrian Finns (Russia)

w:Karelians (Russia)

w:Veps (Russia)

w:Votes (Russia)

[edit] Lappic

Sami people[12] (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia)

[edit] Ugric

Hungarian minority of Romania

[edit] Altaic

[edit] Turkic

w:Iraqi Turkmens/Turks (Iraq)	w:South Azerbaijan (Iran)	w:Khorasan Turkmens/Turks (Iran)	w:Afghanistan Turks/South Turkestan (Afghanistan)
w:Western Thrace Turks (Greece)	w:Crimean Tatars (Ukraine)	w:Tatars of Belarus	Bulgarian-Turkish People (Bulgaria)
w:Meskhetian Turks (Georgia)	w:Gagauz people (Moldova)	w:Tuvans (Tuva, Russia)
w:Tatars (Tatarstan, Russia)

[edit] Mongolic

w:Kalmyks (Kalmykia, Russia)

w:Buryats (Buryatia, Russia)

[edit] Oceania

[edit] Austronesian

[edit] Polynesian

w:Rapanui (Easter Island)

w:M_ori (New Zealand)

[edit] Papuan

[edit] Melanesian

w:Kanaks[13] (New Caledonia)

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Flags of unrecognized states
• Flags of formerly independent states
• Flags of subnational entities
• Flags of micronations
• Flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements
• List of cultural flags
• Rainbow flag
• Vexillology

[edit] References

• Znaimerowski, Alfred (2001). The World Encyclopedia of Flags. London: Hermes House.