Can you name the official languages of the countries of Asia? by Maphead

Can you name the official languages of the countries of Asia?

created by Maphead

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Afghanistan

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Brunei

Cambodia

China

Georgia

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Lebanon

Malaysia

Maldives

Mongolia

Myanmar

Nepal

North Korea

Oman

Pakistan

Philippines

Qatar

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Turkey

Turkmenistan

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yemen

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Official Languages of Asia Quiz

by Maphead

Created Jan 2, 2012 in Geography
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	Maphead:	Jan 2nd, 2012 at 18:23 GMT	12 points
	Before you explode about India, the 15 "official languages" are official only in specific provinces, while the two listed above our used throughout.

	balatjr:	Jan 2nd, 2012 at 23:21 GMT	7 points
	Well, it is actually 22, and they are nationally recognized, but okay. Also confusing is the fact that several countries basically speak to greater or lesser extent Persian: Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan. And Indonesian is a dialect of Malay. But using the 'official' state labels....

	Maphead:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 03:53 GMT	4 points
	That's the wonderful world of languages for you.

	Blowfish_Hootie:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 07:05 GMT	10 points
	It doesn't accept Dari for Afghanistan.

	antoniobroto:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 08:04 GMT	15 points
	What about Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan...?

	jackmerlin:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 08:53 GMT	2 points
	I was expecting to be listing 15 or so for India...

	Rocotet:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 09:12 GMT	0 points
	Ostia, ¿Chinochano también le da al Sporcle?

	rts:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 09:24 GMT	6 points
	Would be nice if it accepted some of the alternative spellings of Pashto (since it's transliterated, thus multiple spellings are in common and acceptable usage)...

	Razorblade:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 10:56 GMT	2 points
	You have to speak english to tag alog in Philippines...

	SomeoneRandom:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 12:48 GMT	4 points
	It would be nice if 'Bahasa' or 'Bahasa Indonesian' were accepted for Indonesian.

	Supercamel:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 12:54 GMT	2 points
	Thought i did alright until i saw the stats

	highbad:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 18:03 GMT	6 points
	just one spelling issue: The official language of Mongolia is definitely not "Mongolia"

	Jam1:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 19:12 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! I tried 'Sinhalese' for 'Sinhala'. I know Sinhalese refers to the people and Sinhala to the language, but maybe you could accept Sinhalese?

	Abjiklam:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 20:09 GMT	5 points
	Nice quiz! Although if you want to follow the countries of Asia quiz you're missing Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.

	Haradonia:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 21:45 GMT	1 point
	I completely forgot English as a main language..

	Ashgabat:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 22:08 GMT	3 points
	Mandarin Chinese should also accepted, I typed in Chinese, realized I forgot Mandarin, and then was very confused.

	Ashgabat:	Jan 3rd, 2012 at 22:12 GMT	2 points
	Also, why is the answer for Mongolia 'Mongolia' even though it accepts Mongol as an answer?

	geomonkey:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 00:28 GMT	12 points
	New year resolution: Learn Dzongkha

Brunei

	koopa08:	Jan 4th, 2012 at 03:00 GMT	-1 points
	What about Vedic or Sanskrit?

Indonesia

	Snorcle:	Jan 5th, 2012 at 00:48 GMT	1 point
	I actually knew the official language of East Timor (know someone who lived there) but tried so many alternate spellings and didn't pick yours. Are other spellings acceptable (like Tatum or Tatoum)? If so, can you include them as answers?

	Maphead:	Jan 5th, 2012 at 01:04 GMT	1 point
	Tetun is the only alternate I have found, sorry about that.

Kuwait

	Djibouti:	Jan 5th, 2012 at 20:38 GMT	-1 points
	I'll argue against even including Japan at all. At most it should be a bonus answer. Sure that's going to open up the comments section to people yelling "you forgot japan!", but it's more correct to say they have no official language than to say they have a 'de facto official language' (which is oxymoronic)

Maldives

	finlay:	Jan 10th, 2012 at 17:19 GMT	3 points
	Also goddammit, why did I write "Farsi" for the official language of Iran? If I'd written "Persian" I'd have scored that extra point for Afghanistan too! Damn my linguist brain! Also, quite pleased that I got Pashto, Dzongkha and Sinhala (although I kept wanting to type Sindarin) – and I tried Divehi and Dihevi before getting a point for "Maldivian"; basically, I forgot the h. The only one I genuinely didn't know at all was Tetum...

	phibbyfan:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 02:31 GMT	2 points
	@finlay: If a de facto language is being considered "official" then there is really no reason to not include India's languages. They are more official than Japanese. Official languages are determined by what's been made official, so Djibouti is right.

	MadameRay:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 23:21 GMT	3 points
	It accepts too much... some of the answers I cheated and put things like "Cambodian" and still got the answer.

Saudi Arabia