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Nostratic theory language families' set of logos:

from left to right:
1: Uralic 2: Altaic 3: [Elamo-]Dravidian
4: Indo-European 5: Kartvelian 6: Afroasiatic

explanations, inspirations:

1.
Uralic - double cross from the coa of Hungary combined with the Nordic cross from the flag of Finland forming a schematic emblem similar to emblems of other Finno-Ugric nations
a) Samoyedic: horns from the flag of Nenets Autonomous Okrug
b) Ugric: Hungarian double cross and a crown from the flag of Khanty-Mansi AO
c) Sami: sun from the Sami flag
d) Balto-Finnic: Nordic cross from the flag of Finland combined with a wave symbolizing Baltic sea
e) three extinct F-U languages of unknown affiliation: Merya, Muromian and Meshcherian: three crosses / X's
f) Mordvinic: solar symbol from the flag of Mordovia
g) Mari: symbol based on the one on the flag of Mari El
h) Permic: lunar[!] symbol from the flag of Udmurtia

2.
Altaic [?] - crescent and a star from the flag of Turkey forming nearly a sun from the flag of Japan and orientated as it was a part of the Soyombo symbol from the flag of Mongolia
a) Turkic: crescent moon and a star from the flag of Turkey and other Turkic nations
b) Mongolic: part of the Soyombo symbol from the flag of Mongolia [especially from the flag of the Mongolian People's Republic (1921-1924)]
c) Tungusic: based on the coa of Manchukuo
d) Korean: stylized yin-yang from the flag of Korean Empire
e) Japonic: sun from the flag of Japan

3.
[Elamo-?]Dravidian - southern part of Indian peninsula with two dots indicating Sri Lanka island and Brahui language in Pakistan
a) Elamite: "la" symbol from the Old Elamite script
b) Harappan [?]: a fish symbol from the Indus script
c) Northern Dravidian: combined Arabic script ب [b] for Brahui and Devanagari script कु [ku] for Kurukh
d) Central Dravidian: combined Telugu script తె [te] for Telugu and Oriya script [kho] for Khonds
e) Southern Dravidian: combined Tamil script த [ta] for Tamil and Malayalam script മ [ma] for Malayalam

4.
Indo-European - stars from the flag of Europe and Ashoka Chakra from the flag of India
a) Armenian: rainbow from above the Noah's ark from the coa of Armenia
b) Hellenic: Greek cross from the coa and flag of Greece
c) Albanian: double-headed eagle from the flag of Albania
d) Italic languages: Latin cross
e) Celtic languages: Celtic cross
f) Germanic languages: Nordic cross from Scandinavian flags
g) Baltic: three waves for the Baltic sea
h) Slavic: East Orthodox cross combined with the Western Latin cross and the "az" letter from the Glagolitic alphabet
i) Iranian: faravahar
j) Indo-Aryan and other Indo-Iranian languages: Ashoka Chakra
k) Tocharian: "cha" letter form the Tocharian script
l) Anatolian: Hittite sun disk

5.
South Caucasian [Karvelian] - the grapevine cross - aka the Georgian cross or Saint Nino's cross
a) Karto-Zan: combined Georgian Mkhedruli script ქ [kh] for Kartvelian and ზ [z] for Zan
b) Svan: ლ [l] for the endonym of the language

6.
Afroasiatic - a piramide
a) Berber: Tifinagh letter "yaz" from the Berber flag
b) Chadic: "cha" letter from the Hausa alphabet
c) Cushitic [and Omotic]: tree from the Oromo flag
d) Egyptian: Coptic letter "ḏanḏia" from Demotic
e) Semitic: Old Phoenician letter "aleph"

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Ognimdo2002's avatar
Borean Languages symbols please, pet me know what the Borean Languages separately from Caucasian Navajo Austronesian (Dene-Daic) and Nostratic.