Can you name the official languages of the European Union?

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Source: The official website of the European Union
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E.U. Official Languages Quiz

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Published: July 30th, 2009
Category: Language
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Tags: Europe Quizzes, Europe Union, official, union

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	michael1:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT	19 points
	I probably wouldn't have gotten Maltese if the answers weren't listed alphabetically.

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	bugaffi:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:32 GMT	42 points
	Gaelic should work.

	Golem:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:34 GMT	46 points
	Gaelic is the Irish word for Irish. You might as well have Espanol for Spanish, and go that way for them all if you want to nitpick.

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	zalagreensbury:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	89 points
	This sucks all this time my sister's yelling 'Irish' behind me and I scream at her to shut up and stop being stupid...I hate irony.

	kwesta1a:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	17 points
	@ Cheesyjon: No, they're not EU members. Kinda like Iceland, shame I realized this only after wasting several mintues trying to figure out if I had the right spelling on Icelandic

	chanman:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	11 points
	@Zalagreensbury: haha that's a FML story right there And I just missed Maltese... I wasn't sure if it was part of the EU, so I hesitantly typed "Maltan" (question mark?), and it didn't show up so I tried every European country after that (yes, out of desperation I tried Russian which I know full well isn't in the EU, Belgian which I KNOW speaks French, Luxembourgian... Liechtensteinian, etc etc...oh yeah, and cyprusian.)

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	Terps:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	-1 points
	yeah i too did not know irish was a language...still got it but was real surprised when it worked

	Brobert2:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	38 points
	Seems a bit of general ignorance fighting is in order in these comments. Irish is the accepted term for the native language of Ireland. Actual Irish speakers sometimes find the term "Gaelic" offensive as it doesn't distinguish between their language and Scottish Gaelic, which are not mutually intelligible. The Irish word for their language is "Gaelige." Cheesyjon, those are reasonable guesses but wrong since neither Norway nor Russia are part of the EU. Norway, Iceland and Switzerland are West Europe's notable absences from the European Union.

	tere:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	0 points
	Ah, so close. I was trying to figure out the name for Slovenia's language.

	cocky:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	-3 points
	I tried Serbian and Croatian, but not Slovenian. The Baltics never occured to me. Tried other Eastern European countries, but not bulgarian. Not sure how Greek didn't come to mind.

	amandaplease:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 04:55 GMT	-3 points
	i was so close. i got slovak but not czech. dur.

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	darinfic:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	3 points
	i ALWAYS forget bulgaria!!

	NightOwl:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT	23 points
	This question about Gaelic seems to come up in every Sporcle language quiz. Brobert2 is correct. When English-speaking linguists use the word "gaelic", they are referring to the ancient language of Ireland and other places in which the Celts or Gaels settled. When speaking of the tongue of modern Ireland (besides English), the correct term is "Irish."

	mungar:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT	11 points
	Thought of Malta... went for Maltan. Denied.

	darkfox1990:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT	9 points
	How did I forget the second 'u' in portuguese?! I tried spelling it a hundred times until I thought Portugal quit the EU.

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	ulashima:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 06:18 GMT	10 points
	Each new member is a new language, if speaking for EU. They wanted to limit the languages to the most spoken ones, but some members found it discriminatory and the idea was left. FYI, soon we can see Icelandic and Croatian on this test (because they'll soon be members)

	hindu1225:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 06:20 GMT	-2 points
	yeah! i got them all but surprisingly polish gave me the hardest time

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	traineediplomat:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 06:36 GMT	-2 points
	Darn you Malta!!!!

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	cigarette:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 07:13 GMT	7 points
	Had I stopped to think when "Finlandian" didn't work, I probably could have come up with Finnish.

	Kitnaz:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 07:55 GMT	-2 points
	I only missed two - Dutch and Polish - but loads were from random guessing. I was trying anything that came into mind and I was trying Czech-Republician (which I knew had about 1/1,000,000 chance of being right!) when Czech came up :)

	mercian:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 08:03 GMT	6 points
	A one in a million chance comes up 9 times out of 10. Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett?

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	gracie:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 08:54 GMT	14 points
	Onno, the quiz creators didn't have a choice as of what to include. It's a list of the official languages of the European Union, as chosen by...the European Union. Not "languages spoken in countries that happen to be members of the European Union." Unless you meant that the EU would have been better if it included those languages.

	Onno:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 09:03 GMT	5 points
	Kind of. I know these are the official languages as chosen by the European Union, but a quiz that asks for all official languages in the EU (or entire Europe) would have been more fun. Now it's just putting in the language named after the country for most countries.

	tbh444:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 09:05 GMT	7 points
	The EU does recognise quite a few minority languages without them being official (Welsh, Catalan, etc. even Cornish I think) - could be an interesting quiz.

	Greg_:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 09:35 GMT	3 points
	@Mercian: Terry Pratchett, from I believe, Guards Guards!

	red_andy:	Jul 30th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT	5 points
	@tbh444: Minority EU languages would be an interesting quiz. Since the EU recognised Cornish as a minority language (despite its dubious status), it meant that Portugal is now the only EU country not to have any minority languages at all.

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