Can you name the countries which do not have the Latin Alphabet as either official or co-official scripts? by HiddenPalace

Can you name the countries which do not have the Latin Alphabet as either official or co-official scripts?

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Source: Latin Alphabet World Distribution - Wikipedia
You might say this is a language quiz. Yet, it teaches you more about geography itself than whether a country has the letter P in it not...
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Non-Latin Alphabet Countries Quiz

by HiddenPalace

Created Apr 3, 2010 in Geography
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	HiddenPalace:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 19:56 GMT	5 points
	I've reduced the time to 3 minutes. I know it's gonna be mostly hardcore Sporclers that will be playing this, so I thought that would make it more of a challenge.

	crashintoavan:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 20:30 GMT	2 points
	I would have appreciated an extra minute or two, but I see where you're coming from

	crover:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 20:36 GMT	2 points
	wow that is a tough time constraint. Agree that I would have liked another minute having only got 36 but it's good to have some hard quizes. Really good fun :)

	HiddenPalace:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	2 points
	Want me to up it to 4? I can if you want to. Probably will, now. I just hope there's none I've missed 'cause I was relying on that Wikipedia map which is unclear for very small countries... but I managed to think of the Maldives, and checked Comoros but it's got other languages along with Arabic. If you know your history making this quiz becomes easier.

	HiddenPalace:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 20:56 GMT	3 points
	The only thing is that some hardcore Sporclers could probably rattle out most of the countries of the world in 4 minutes, and if they know a bit about history and language and geography they could get this quiz easily. But I suppose not everyone is that much of a nerd.

	SPR:	Apr 4th, 2010 at 00:58 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz!

	DethLeppard:	May 18th, 2010 at 02:21 GMT	2 points
	Belarus has both a Cyrillic and Latin script, Kazakhstan switched to Latin after 1991, and I don't think Bhutanese uses a Latin alphabet. Otherwise, good job.

	kokis:	May 22nd, 2010 at 19:19 GMT	2 points
	Hey, interesting quiz. By the way Cyprus speaks and writes in greek.

	steelwolf:	May 23rd, 2010 at 12:36 GMT	2 points
	kokis, Turkish is also an official language in Cyprus, and that does use a Latin alphabet.

	Trazom:	May 23rd, 2010 at 17:50 GMT	2 points
	Vietnam? Hello?

	Williams27:	May 23rd, 2010 at 18:32 GMT	3 points
	What's your point, Trazom? Vietnamese has been universally written in the Latin alphabet for decades, so it rightly does not belong on this list. Good quiz!

	Trazom:	May 23rd, 2010 at 20:51 GMT	6 points
	My point is that I'm pig-ignorant, I guess :) I was surprised not to find Vietnamese on the list, and Wikipedia says that it uses something it calls the "Vietnamese alphabet," which would seem to be close to but not identical with the Latin. Someone more knowledgeable on the subject (i.e., anyone who isn't me) could adjudicate this one. In the meantime, I do apologize for the snarky tone — the result of frustration at not doing as well on this one as I'd hoped.

	xref:	May 24th, 2010 at 09:20 GMT	2 points
	Macedonia is not on here while it should,since they use the cyrillic alphabet I believe.

	Hamburger:	May 24th, 2010 at 11:47 GMT	3 points
	Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia use cyrillic, although Serbia uses both. I am not sure that I would include (for example) Turkish on here, as they use Latin letters, but also use additional letters. I know that leads us down the road of including or excluding letters unique to languages (such as the French c, or the German öüäß, Norwegian, etc), but I was suprised nonetheless.

	DethLeppard:	Jul 5th, 2010 at 02:31 GMT	4 points
	@Trazom, Vietnamese uses Quoc Thu, which was devised by a French missionary. Before that, they used Chinese characters, and some still insist (for who knows what horrible reason) on using them today, so you're not entirely off.

	Golonguthur:	Aug 23rd, 2010 at 16:49 GMT	2 points
	I was very surprised India was not on here.

	Riko:	Sep 16th, 2010 at 03:34 GMT	2 points
	English is an official language of the Indian federal government and a few states. I always thought Romaji was one of the official writing systems of Japan?

	Koira:	Oct 27th, 2010 at 18:50 GMT	2 points
	There's a word missing in the witty last part of the game rules. I loved the quiz :)

	seedy189:	Feb 12th, 2011 at 14:35 GMT	1 point
	hard quiz another minute

	Gibbins:	May 10th, 2011 at 19:50 GMT	2 points
	What about serbia?