4d ago

NATO logo but everyone is as entitled as the Fr*nch

Acronym	Title	Language/Country
ОСАД	Организацията на Северноатлантическия договор	`bg` Bulgarian 🇧🇬
ОСАД	Организација на Северноатлантскиот договор	`mk` Macedonian 🇲🇰
SAA	Severoatlantická aliance	`cs` Czech 🇨🇿
NATO	Nordatlantisk Traktat-Organisation	`da` Danish 🇩🇰
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organization	`en` English 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦
Nato	Den nordatlantiske traktats organisasjon	`no` Norwegian 🇳🇴
ONAV	Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags	`de` German 🇩🇪🇱🇺🇧🇪
ΟΒΑΣ	Οργανισμός Βορειοατλαντικού Συμφώνου	`el` Greek 🇬🇷
OTAN	Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte	`es` Spanish 🇪🇸
OTAN	Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord	`fr` Frnch 🇫🇷🇨🇦🇱🇺🇧🇪
OTAN	Organizzazione del Trattato dell'Atlantico del Nord	`it` Italian 🇮🇹
OTAN	Organização do Tratado do Atlântico Norte	`pt` Portugese 🇵🇹
OTAN	Organizația Tratatului Atlanticului de Nord	`ro` Romanian 🇷🇴
PALO	Põhja-Atlandi Lepingu Organisatsioon	`et` Estonian 🇪🇪
PAPL	Pohjois-Atlantin puolustusliitto	`fi` Finnish 🇫🇮
ÉASzSz	Észak-atlanti Szerződés Szervezete	`hu` Hungarian 🇭🇺
AB	Atlantshafsbandalagið	`is` Icelandic 🇮🇸
ONAT	Organisatioun vum Nordatlantik-Traité	`lb` Luxembourgish 🇱🇺
ŠASO	Šiaurės Atlanto Sutarties Organizacija	`lt` Lithuanian 🇱🇹
ZALO	Ziemeļatlantijas Līguma organizācija	`lv` Latvian 🇱🇻
OSAS	Organizacija Severnog Atlantičkog sporazuma	`me` Montenegrin 🇲🇪
OSAS	Organizacija Sjevernoatlantskog sporazuma	`sh` Croatian 🇭🇷
NAVO	Noord-Atlantische Verdragsorganisatie	`nl` Dutch 🇳🇱🇧🇪
OTPA	Organizacja Traktatu Północnoatlantyckiego	`pl` Polish 🇵🇱
DAB	Davvi-Atlántta bealuštuslihttu	`se` North Sámi 🇳🇴
OSAZ	Organizácia Severoatlantickej zmluvy	`sk` Slovak 🇸🇰🇨🇿
SAPO	Severnoatlantska pogodbena organizacija	`sl` Slovene 🇸🇮
OTAV	Organizata e Traktatit të Atlantikut Verior	`sq` Albanian 🇦🇱🇲🇰
NAFO	Nordatlantiska fördragsorganisationen	`sv` Swedish 🇸🇪🇫🇮
KAAÖ	Kuzey Atlantik Antlaşması Örgütü	`tr` Turkish 🇹🇷

Data mostly from Wikipedia. No warranty. For example, Slovak is arguably not an official language in the Czech Republic, just mentioned as “mutually intelligible” in certain laws but I followed Wikipedia and included it. Languages are grouped by the acronyms and sorted by their 2-letter codes. Those are based on their Wikipedia URL or my guess (sucks to be you, Montenegrin speakers, should have made your own Wikipedia). Countless Sámi languages are represented by North Sámi, the only one with a NATO Wikipedia article.

Changelog from v1 I originally posted on Reddit: Hungarian ÉASS → ÉASzSz (the "sz" stays together in acronyms because unlike most letter pairs it makes a single special sound).

17 comments

I count 5 languages and 8 countries for OTAN and 3 languages and 5 countries for NATO, so if anyone is being entitled and not respecting the plurality is the anglophones.
- True but the vast majority of NATO countries use "NATO" as the acronym despite their languages producing all the different ones I showed. Most of the ones in the picture I had to deduce from the official translation, which is kind of my point: English works for just about everyone but Frnce. And the Frnch could accept "NATO" as the acronym too if they weren't nationalist pricks.
  
  Looking at your picture there is as many starting with O than N. And you seem to mix french language and France. And what about other acronisms like BIT, or the even the Croix Rouge ? So, tell us, why do you despise France so much?
- Never knew this, thanks
- I came here to write this
  Take my up vote

You mean the French and the Anglo-Saxons?
Or, the NATO🔷OTAN logo is in Canadian
- Noncredible theory: Whenever the French and the Brits can't agree on something, they ask Canada for mediation, as it's the only country in the world that has successfully appeased both people.
  
  I am like 90% sure that theory is more credible than non
- Look, any organization that has a name and acronym needs it in one language, and it's obviously going to be English in the world of 20^th/21^st century North-Western diplomacy. Any more are a burden.
  
  Wouldn't be so sure about the entire 21st century. There are some major efforts by the English speaking parts of the world in recent years to ruin that for themselves.
  
  ChaoticNeutralCzech
  Hm.. hau vould you order drei beer? Where does Budweiser comm from?

Be careful with the Fr🤮nce hate. Earlier today people forced me to say that I like fr🤮nch military planes.

Go Iceland. Simplify down from 4 letters to 2, and make one of those 2 letters a letter that doesn't even appear in the original.
- It's actually Atlantshafsbandalagið in Icelandic and the research I did suggests that it's just 2 words in the compound word, hence the two letters.
  After I made the first version of mine, another Redditor made their own, which does not respect compound words and results in just "A" for Icelandic.