Esperanto flag

Esperanta flago

Last modified: 2005-08-19 by antonio martins
Keywords: esperanto | star: 5 points (green) | canton: star | e | jubilea simbolo | ee | verda stelo | contest |
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• Presentation
• Origin and symbolism of the flag
• Particular variants
• Star with "E"
• Earlier versions
• The jubilee symbol

• Flags of constructed languages

• Vento — a vexillological e-mail group for esperanto-speakers

Presentation

Esperanto accounts for more than 99% of all published material on interlinguistics, and probbably much more than 99% of the speakers of all constructed languages.
António Martins, 04 June 1999

Origin and symbolism of the flag

The Esperanto flag: green 2:3, white 1:1 canton with 0,35 radius green 5 pointed regular star pointing upwards centered on it.
António Martins, 04 Jun 1999

Esperanto organizations and individual esperantists use this flag as a general symbol of their language; variants defaced with organization names and slogans, written on the bottom half of the flag, are usual. Some organizations, especially those whose logo or emblem is based on the green star, put it on the canton of an otherwise unmodified esperanto flag (see particular variants).
António Martins, 14 May 2004

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