Flag icons for languages

Such icons have long been used on tourist attraction signage, and elsewhere in the tourism space, but have found wider use in website localization where UX limitations have become apparent.

A diagonally divided flag between two or more nation states may be used when more than one country is a major user of a language.

[3][4] Some international linguistic communities have flags which encompass all the speakers of a language while avoiding the symbolism of national flags, though they are not as widely recognized.

National flags can also be used to distinguish between different written standards for a single language.

In the media, this was speculated to be a response to Brexit, with the Republic of Ireland as one of the only two Anglophone nations left in the European Union.