Can you name the official language that each country listed speaks?

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Liberia

Egypt

Bangladesh

San Marino

Philippines

Denmark

Brazil

Netherlands

Liechtenstein

Grenada

Burkina Faso

Suriname

Panama

Ethiopia

Andorra

Iceland

Angola

Monaco

Colombia

Austria

Yemen

The Bahamas

Brunei

Gabon

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Official Languages Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: July 17th, 2009
Category: Language
Plays: 87,196

Tags: Country Quizzes, speak, official, listed

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	Grapefruit:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	5 points
	Liechtenstein is listed twice...?

	Kicking222:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	3 points
	Why yes, yes it is. Otherwise, fun quiz. Good idea, and (aside from that hiccup) a nice variety of nations and languages.

	jesus:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:13 GMT	17 points
	@grapefruit: and yet there is a 6% difference between the two answers. Some people aren't concentrating.

	weizenugb:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:14 GMT	18 points
	Should Tagalog count for the Philippines? I'm not sure if they are the same language or not, but I knew a person from the Philippines once and they told me they spoke Tagalog. Maybe one is a dialect of the other or something.

	hkvu:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:15 GMT	25 points
	tagalog and filipino are the same language. tagalog should be made acceptable.

	shnubby:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:18 GMT	5 points
	seconded. or thirded, i guess. tried about 40 different spelling of tagalog before giving up angry.

	Bartleby:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:21 GMT	9 points
	according to wikipedia, filipino is based on tagalog, but the two languages are distinct. filipino is the official language. i was going to request that tagalog be accepted until i looked it up.

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	SporcleAdmin:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:30 GMT	30 points
	We just wanted you to be doubly sure that you knew the official language of Liechtenstein, now that you have it down, we have changed the quiz.

	Guinevere:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:32 GMT	3 points
	I have finally been moved to register in order to express my bitter disappoinment over Tagalog not being accepted. Changed my possible 21/24 to a 20/24 (I wasn't going to get the other three, no way no how). To add insult to injury, I had given up and was in the process of typing filipino when I ran out of time. (Shakes fist at Sporcle gods.)

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	zalagreensbury:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	1 point
	bows down to sporcle thank you for this quiz let's just put it like this, I didn't score as high as I'd like to on the last 5 quizzes.

	Spog:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:48 GMT	10 points
	Why is Filipino spelt with an F when the country is spelt PH? I've never really thought about it before now.

	kaiohshin:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:48 GMT	5 points
	@Journey2688: I don't know about that. I think there are more Spanish speaking countries than Dutch speaking countries out there. I could be wrong. Spanish seems like more of a gimme than Dutch. At least from my perspective. Have you spent time in the Netherlands or in a largely Dutch speaking area? Perhaps your perspective is colored by this.

	melissa:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz - definitely room for a sequel. Annoyed that I couldn't spell Amharic (kept trying Americ, which looked way too much like America).

	Onno:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 19:53 GMT	6 points
	I think Journey2688 refers to the fact that Dutch IS the language of the Netherlands, while Panama has Spanish as official language because they used to be a colony of Spain. Had no idea that the official language of Andorra was Catalan. After French and Spanish didn't work I just took a guess because I knew it was spoken relatively nearby around Barcelona.

	kidcanada:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	2 points
	@Journey2688 - I'm sure there are plenty of people who are unaware that there is such a thing as the Dutch language, and assume that in the Netherlands people speak French and/or German.

	Distiller:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	8 points
	My favourite type of quiz. Knowledge and variety.

	RyanUR:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	13 points
	Thank you for not making us know all of the official languages of India.

	zalagreensbury:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:16 GMT	2 points
	@Onno: I knew a lot of people were gonna get tripped up on Andorra but the capital has a Spanish and or Catalan name so I was able to narrow it down from there. I don't know why Panama was so tough for a lot of people unless you simply don't know where it is on the map. shrug

	Alexander:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:30 GMT	5 points
	This is exactly the quiz I always wanted. Missed Angola and Brunei, though.

	mirror_noir:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 20:33 GMT	11 points
	Like it, but why on earth does it accept English for Filipino??

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seb302:

Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT

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@mirror_noir: according to wikipedia (always a reliable source, of course), filipino and english are both official languages of the philippines.

	karinaedge:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	-3 points
	i am SO proud of myself for getting andorra.

	Jcdizon:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:27 GMT	10 points
	To those asking the difference between Tagalog and Filipino, most Filipinos consider them the same language and they usually call it Tagalog. They only refer to the language as Filipino is when they speak to a non-Filipino

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	gracie:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:32 GMT	10 points
	i gave up trying the obvious after "liberian," "egyptian," and "bandgladeshi"....darn you, icelandic!

	DeaD:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 21:51 GMT	3 points
	french northern catalonia has twice the number of catalan speakers andorra has. spanish catalonia has a catalan speaking population about 75 times that of andorra. all of those very localized languages seem rather interesting, but painstakingly difficult to learn.

	Kelsey:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:06 GMT	3 points
	I guessed French, Spanish, and English for pretty much everything. And apparently "Icelandish" isn't a word. Pssht~ I guess it still rhymes.

	thisisaname:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT	8 points
	@RyanUR: Idea for a quiz: Name all the official languages of India.

	thisisaname:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	6 points
	And also South Africa.

	Lenni:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	9 points
	Sporcle, PLEASE create the same game for the whole world!! And if theres more than one option have us list them all...

	Rhys:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:34 GMT	4 points
	Never thought I'd do so well (24/24), not even sure how I knew about the official language of Ethiopia. Plenty of opportunities for numerous sequels, in fact I think a quiz with every country and their official languages would be fantastic. Just like the flags of the world quiz.

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	Djibouti:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	7 points
	@Spog: As it was explained to me, the Philippines is named after King Philip, thus the Ph. Filipino comes from the Spanish term Las Islas Filipinas which is what some explorer called it around the same time. The Ph term is used for nouns, the F term is used for adjectives. Why they didn't just pick one and go with it, I have no idea.

	Djibouti:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 22:51 GMT	11 points
	By the way, wasn't everyone supposed to be speaking esperanto by now?

	maniacalclown:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	3 points
	@Djibouti: Only if they work for the Jupiter Mining Corps.

	davidr:	Jul 17th, 2009 at 23:14 GMT	22 points
	@Art Vandaley: The USA doesn't have an official language.