Can you name the official languages of Asia? by MathijsP

Language	Has official status in

	Armenia
	India
	Azerbaijan
	Indonesia
	Bangladesh, India
	Burma (Myanmar)
	Afghanistan
	Maldives
	Bhutan

	Philippines
	China
	Georgia
	India
	China
	Israel
	India
	Japan
	India
	Uzbekistan
	India
	Cambodia
	Iraq
	Kazakhstan
	Mongolia
	Korea (North and South)
	Kyrgyzstan
	Laos
	Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore

Language	Has official status in
	India
	China, Singapore, Taiwan
	India
	China
	China
	China
	Nepal
	India
	Afghanistan
	Iran
	Timor-Leste
	India
	Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia
	India
	India
	Sri Lanka
	Tajikistan
	India, Singapore, Sri Lanka
	India
	Timor-Leste
	Thailand
	China
	Turkey
	Turkmenistan
	Vietnam
	India, Pakistan
	Uzbekistan
	China
	China
	China

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Official Languages of Asia Quiz

by MathijsP

Created Nov 18, 2009 in Language
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	MathijsP:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 15:06 GMT	3 points
	This one took a lot of time to make and turned out to be very hard. Don't expect to get them all or even most of them. Have fun anyway. :)

	ChanandlerBong:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 15:18 GMT	4 points
	Hard quiz. It's Telugu, not Telegu.

	MathijsP:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 15:25 GMT	1 point
	Fixed. ;D

	Stewart:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 16:09 GMT	4 points
	Farsi should be accepted as an alternative for Persian. I'm not sure if Dari really qualifies as a separate language - the source refers to "Afghan Persian or Dari", and wikipedia describes it as a Persian dialect - but I'm far from an expert.

	Matt999:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:08 GMT	3 points
	I know it's not quite technically correct, but can 'Sinhalese' be accepted for 'Sinhala'? Really great quiz.

	Bray:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 19:47 GMT	2 points
	Damn you, 'k' in 'Dzongkha'.

	pippin:	Nov 18th, 2009 at 21:46 GMT	1 point
	Thai?

	1447:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 00:37 GMT	0 points
	Got 52/60, nailed every weird Chinese and Indian language except 5, but managed to forget English. I mean, come on...

	Detektor:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 01:29 GMT	2 points
	I hate to be a stick-in-the-mud, but your alphabetization is off on the bottom left hand corner for some reason and it threw off my H,J and Ks.

	MathijsP:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	1 point
	Hes been fixed. Typical sporcle-ish mistake of mine. :(

	badquiz:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	3 points
	Pashto is also known as Afghani.

	MathijsP:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 07:44 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for pointing out again. Afghani is now an alterate answer for Pashto.

	Rients:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 09:14 GMT	1 point
	Chinese (standard Mandarin) is the only official language of China as far as I know. I like the quiz, made me look up the status of French in Lebanon.

	MathijsP:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	1 point
	The others are recognized in parts of China.

	anarresti:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 14:20 GMT	2 points
	If you're going to include the so-called 'dialects' of Chinese(Xiang, Gan, Wu etc), you need to allow non-Sinitic languages such as Zhuang, Uighur and Manchu - these three all appear on banknotes. Also, is Konkani not an official language of India?

	nayajhen:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 18:58 GMT	0 points
	I think you forgot yemeni. It is all they speak in yemen after all.

	nayajhen:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 19:06 GMT	2 points
	Also, Sanskrit is about as official as latin is in any country. Btw: Sindhi is really only official in Pakistan I think. India doesn't recognize it as one of the official languages. I'm being rather pedantic. Feel free to ignore me :).

	31195:	Dec 31st, 2009 at 19:23 GMT	-1 points
	A lot of these languages are little dialects.

	jimmyjam82nj:	Feb 3rd, 2010 at 02:13 GMT	3 points
	I would suggest accepting Sinhalese for Sinhala.

	oneraremini:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 06:40 GMT	1 point
	Actually India has 22 official languages, of which you list is selective. It is missing Bodo Dogri Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei) Santali

	Auguste:	Jun 14th, 2010 at 12:52 GMT	1 point
	Isn't French an official language in Lebanon ?

	Swingo:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 15:31 GMT	1 point
	I have to agree with anarresti--I know Uighur is an official language in Xinjiang (on street signs, etc.), and if I'm thinking right, Zhuang is official in Guangxi

	Jelle:	Jul 21st, 2011 at 00:56 GMT	0 points
	Tajik and Dari are actually Persian. So you might want to consider having Persian work for them.

	Golonguthur:	May 3rd, 2012 at 19:23 GMT	1 point
	How is English not an acceptable answer?