@dlauthor: Probably for similar reasons why you'd probably not try Kyrgyzstan as an answer for "Countries where Chinese is an official language" or "Countries where Mongol is an official language." For most countries that didn't maintain a real "colonial" presence into the mid-20th Century (such as Germany), you're not likely to find the countries' official language to be official in their former colonies (German isn't official in places like Cameroon or Tanzania, even though both countries were German colonies for several decades before WWI).
Italian, for instance, is NOT an official language in Somalia even though Somalia was an Italian colony for nearly 70 years but it IS an official language in several neighboring countries (as is German). If you'll look at a map of Kyrgyzstan, it's not a Russian neighbor. Two of the other countries that use Russian as an official language border Russia directly while a dozen or so other countries having direct borders with Russia do not use Russian as an official language--not even those that were actually a part of the USSR. Why should Kyrgyzstan be expected to use Russian when Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Estonia don't? (The first two don't border Russia while the last one does.)
Now, given that this is Sporcle, not having Kyrgyzstan as an answer for at least one category would seem to be a bit odd. But considering the answers that appear for the other languages, it's pretty easy to understand why even dedicated, hard-core Sporclers might not think of Kyrgyzstan for any of the categories. |
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