Lots of people are ignorant of all sorts of things. The relationships of the former members of the (former) British Empire are particularly complex. Languages

Lots of people are ignorant of all sorts of things. The relationships of the former members of the (former) British Empire are particularly complex. Languages aren't countries. Geographic locations aren't necessarily parts of a single country (contested territories are a thing), and immigrants to one location may not read/write the language of the location they live in. ISO 639-3[1] is language codes, and they are NOT ISO 3166 [2] country codes. There are fewer country codes than language codes, which tempts lazy people to use country codes for language dropdowns. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Languages/List_of_ISO_639-3_language_codes_(2019) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Language... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes