Seriously, I thought I checked if there wasn't some similar quiz around, and I couldn't find anything when typing 'countries' in the search box. When you type 'official' in the search box though... Anyway, great minds think alike (and fools never differ)
Good on the quiz master - I think you will find that New Zealand has three official languages - English, Maori (from 1987) and NZ sign language. English just happens to be the most commonly used. Haere rā (farewell in Maori)
Maori is an official language of New Zealand, and that is common knowledge in New Zealand as well. RedZombieAngel and jennywren21 must be the only two Kiwis who live here and don't know that.
Actually, just a quick interesting fact, but English isn't technically an official language in New Zealand. It's certainly the de facto language, but this meant it never required legislation to make the language official. This isn't only New Zealand, most countries have never put the de facto language into legislation, because it simply never needed to be made law. The term 'official' language really only applies to non-de facto languages that have been added later.
As of 2018, Clayton Mitchell has proposed a 'English an Official Language of New Zealand Bill', but this is in the process of becoming law.
To Karvey (since I couldn't directly reply to you), actually most countries 'do' mention their official languages in their constitutions, except for several countries like some major English-speaking countries. Their is no official languages designated in countries like the US, UK, Australia and NZ. But countries like France, Spain, Italy, etc. have their own designation of official languages in their constitutions.
Woah, I made a quiz that's exactly the same as this a month and a half ago. If I had known this one existed I wouldn't have made it :( Seriously I don't remember seeing it in the tags!
because aotearoa is not maori for new zealand, Maori dont actually have a name for New Zealand even early European settlers (especially the british) didn't use new Zealand until the late 19th century.
It would be more correct to either use the regional Names (Tamaki Makarau etc) or Te Ika-a-Māui (fish of Maui - north island)Te Waipounamu (waka of Maui) or Niu Tireni (Maori translation of new zealand)
Aotearoa is a more colloqual term the gained priminance in the mid 20th century as the new zealand govt began recognising Maori rights and encourage the use of and protection of Maori languages and dilects.
Aotearoa initially was, according to some historians, only used in relation to the north island prior to the early 20th century
Even most Maori and Pakeha dont use the term, save for politicians some activist groups and tourist industries.
I studied stuff like this a while back, Hungary was by far the hardest to remember, but i still got 24/24 in first try. I thought that it was somewhat common knowledge that Misr was Egypt in arabic.
Nice quiz! missed the lowest 4. Happened to remember the hungary one looked something like that. With an m and a y haha. Most I knew, some were obvious eventhough I had never heard about them, like mongolia. And some you might no see immediately but get as soon as you pronounce them, like ethiopia and kampuchea.
"Native names have been converted to the Roman alphabet". Language could be more accurate in this caveat, saying "transliterated into Roman alphabet" or simply "romanized".
That may be more technically precise, but it's hard to see how it would make any difference to anyone. Were you somehow misled by the current phrasing?
Probably since Holland in Dutch is also Holland (and it's actually a region of the Netherlands not the whole country). Greece is also known as the Hellenic Republic.
Why would hellas make you think of the netherlands?? There is no similarity whatsoever. It made me think of helenic, but already knew greece was the answer.
maybe you can put the countries in their native writing along with their native names, also, id like to see a quiz like this but for every country in the world, also, greece may be called hellas, but sometimes if you say greece in greek its actually Ελλάδα(ellada)
In arabic, it's spelt meem, saa3d, raah the sound that saa3d makes isn't present in english but with that inflcition in the phonetic alphabet you can properly make the pronunciation
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/25526/countries-by-official-name-1
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/25526/countries-by-official-name-2
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/25526/countries-by-official-name-3
As of 2018, Clayton Mitchell has proposed a 'English an Official Language of New Zealand Bill', but this is in the process of becoming law.
is it possible?
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cesko
It would be more correct to either use the regional Names (Tamaki Makarau etc) or Te Ika-a-Māui (fish of Maui - north island)Te Waipounamu (waka of Maui) or Niu Tireni (Maori translation of new zealand)
Aotearoa is a more colloqual term the gained priminance in the mid 20th century as the new zealand govt began recognising Maori rights and encourage the use of and protection of Maori languages and dilects.
Aotearoa initially was, according to some historians, only used in relation to the north island prior to the early 20th century
Even most Maori and Pakeha dont use the term, save for politicians some activist groups and tourist industries.
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/212585/guess-the-name-surname-in-a-movie-title