Can you name the sovereign countries whose official languages are NOT spoken by more than 50 million native speakers? by zelani

Can you name the sovereign countries whose official languages are NOT spoken by more than 50 million native speakers?

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Source: Wikipedia: List of languages by number of native speakers
Official language(s) must be nationwide and de jure. If more than one, ALL must meet the criteria. Excluding languages have a minimum of 50 million native speakers. Check source page for full list.
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Continent	Country	Official language(s)
Europe		Albanian
Europe		Catalan
Asia		Armenian
Asia		Azerbaijani
Asia		Dzongkha
Europe		Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Asia		Bahasa Melayu
Europe		Bulgarian
Asia		Khmer
Europe		Croatian
Europe		Czech
Europe		Danish
Europe		Estonian
Africa
Europe		Finnish, Swedish
Asia		Georgian
Europe		Greek
Europe		Hungarian
Europe
Asia		Lao
Europe		Latvian

Continent	Country	Official language(s)
Europe		Lithuanian
Europe		Macedonian
Asia		Dhivehi
Europe		Moldovan (Romanian)
Asia		Mongolian
Europe		Montenegrin
Asia		Burmese
Asia		Nepali
Europe		Dutch
Europe		Norwegian
Europe		Polish
Europe		Romanian
Europe		Serbian
Europe		Slovak
Europe		Slovene
South America		Dutch
Europe		Swedish
Asia		Thai
Asia		Turkmen
Europe		Ukrainian
Asia		Uzbek
Asia	Uzbek
Asia	Uzbek
North America	Uzbek
Europe	Uzbek
Europe	Uzbek
	Uzbek
	Uzbek

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	Onno:	May 15th, 2011 at 18:56 GMT		9 points
	Good idea for a quiz. It was not until after the quiz that I realised why Belgium didn't work, so maybe add a sentence to the description that states that ALL official languages need to be. And maybe add bonus answers for Greenland and the Faroe Islands? They may not be countries, but their situation is pretty unique I'd say. Aruba and Curacao could also be bonuses for the same reason.

	Dralcoffin:	May 15th, 2011 at 20:31 GMT		5 points
	For the African country, think of places that had never been colonized. Also, what about Laos?

	zelani:	May 15th, 2011 at 23:25 GMT		4 points
	Onno: Thanks, I added the info regarding Belgium. As for Greenland and Faroe, I'd rather not include non-sovereign countries for now. There are eight bonus answers; did you get them all? =D Dralcoffin: Thanks for the heads up, Laos is now a regular answer. :)

	zelani:	May 15th, 2011 at 23:26 GMT		2 points
	Nine bonus answers, actually.

	srv:	May 16th, 2011 at 00:22 GMT		3 points
	Indonesia?

	zelani:	May 16th, 2011 at 00:49 GMT		5 points
	Indonesian is only spoken by about 23 million native speakers. It's taught in schools, but is not the native language of the majority of the population.

	MisterF:	May 16th, 2011 at 02:48 GMT		3 points
	Nice bonus answer for China!

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 07:49 GMT		2 points
	I found two bonuses. Thanks for making me feel dumb with the Portugal one :). I actually think this would be a better quiz if the order was randomized with a little more time. Then those of us who can do the countries alphabetically would actually have to think of each country instead of going through the list in our heads.

	professor88:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 13:37 GMT		1 point
	Very interesting quiz! How about Tanzania btw? As far as I know it has Swahili as national language only

	mykl:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 15:02 GMT		2 points
	Good quiz, although the source lists lots of other estimates for native speakers of Persian which are all above 50 million, and the Persian language page on the same site claims 110 million native speakers.

	SomeoneRandom:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 15:38 GMT		0 points
	No Papua New Guinea? Papuan isn't spoken in very many other places, and PNG itself has only a very small population.

	xtocb:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 16:25 GMT		5 points
	Vatican city for latin?

	Tobsodan:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 16:51 GMT		2 points
	Ukraine? 37 million native speakers according to your source. Malaysia would also qualify.

	France:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT		3 points
	Luxembourg? (Luxembourgish)

	XYlophonetreeZ:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 20:38 GMT		5 points
	Bruneian is not a language.

	A5l9:	Feb 6th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT		-3 points
	Indonesia has a population of over 350 million. Are you sure less than 50 million speak the official language?

	DMasny:	Feb 7th, 2012 at 03:02 GMT		4 points
	Ukrainian is the only official state language of Ukraine. It has only 37.5 million native speakers. Ukraine should therefore be included.

	inomu:	Feb 10th, 2012 at 18:35 GMT		1 point
	Moldova should be also here. Romanian (Moldovan) is the only official language and native speakers are 24 million.

	zelani:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 13:16 GMT		1 point
	Added Ukraine and Moldova. Thanks for the input!

	zelani:	Feb 11th, 2012 at 13:17 GMT		1 point
	professor88: English is the other official language of Tanzania, which disqualifies it for this quiz.

	holytriplem:	Apr 23rd, 2013 at 10:28 GMT		1 point
	Afghanistan? Israel? Also Ethiopia has more than 50m people

	zelani:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 13:00 GMT		1 point
	Afghanistan: Farsi is spoken by 60m people. Israel: Arabic (official language) is spoken by 270m+ people. Ethiopia's major official language is Amharic, which is only spoken by 25 million people.

	zelani:	Apr 24th, 2013 at 13:02 GMT		1 point
	xtocb: The official language of Vatican City is Italian. Only the Holy See (a separate entity) used Latin in its documents.