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Name an Official Language A-Z

For each letter A-Z, try to name any language that is official in at least one country.
Must be an official language of the entire country, not just a part
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Last updated: June 12, 2019
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First submittedJune 9, 2019
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Letter
Languages
A
Arabic, Albanian, Armenian...
B
Bulgarian, Bengali, Bosnian...
C
Croatian, Czech, Catalan...
D
Dutch, Danish, Dari...
E
English, Estonian,
F
French, Finnish, Farsi...
G
German, Greek, Georgian...
H
Hungarian, Hindi, Hebrew...
I
Italian, Indonesian, Irish...
J
Japanese
K
Korean, Khmer, Kazakh...
L
Latvian, Lithuanian, Lao...
M
Mandarin, Malay, Mongolian...
Letter
Languages
N
Norwegian, Nepali, Nauruan...
O
(none)
P
Portuguese, Polish, Pashto...
Q
Quechua
R
Russian, Romanian, Romansh
S
Spanish, Swedish, Serbian...
T
Turkish, Thai, Tajik...
U
Ukrainian, Uzbek, Urdu...
V
Vietnamese, Venda
W
(none)
X
Xhosa
Y
(none)
Z
Zulu
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100 Recent Comments
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Level 78
Sep 14, 2020
Man...i kept trying Xosha.
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Level 75
Sep 23, 2020
This quiz is in English language but 5% of people missed a language on letter E, go figure. ;)
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Level 82
Dec 1, 2020
According to Wikipedia Oromo is one of the official languages of Ethiopia.
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Level 62
Oct 7, 2021
Well spotted. The quiz was updated in 2019 and the status of Oromo changed in 2020 so it looks like this can be added.
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Level 79
Dec 17, 2020
Amazing how long I was stumped on E.
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Level 51
Dec 17, 2020
18/23 missed Q,T,V,X and Z. A lot of them were sooo obvious once I saw the answers
+1
Level 65
May 13, 2021
On my first try, got Q, but missed G and J... *facepalm*
+2
Level 52
Jun 17, 2021
Cantonese??
+4
Level 46
Jul 8, 2021
Not an official language
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Level 60
Jul 20, 2021
missed Q and Z for very minor spelling errors. please amend.
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Level 63
Jul 20, 2021
Where's Sesotho and why's Chinese and Mandarin both there? Shouldn't it be just Mandarin?
+4
Level 47
Jul 20, 2021
what about Welsh
+1
Level 49
Jul 21, 2021
Wolof is a very popular language in Senegal.
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Level 68
Aug 23, 2021
Very good quiz... didn't even realize I almost didn't finish. 5 seconds left!
+1
Level 41
Oct 7, 2021
Great quiz...! I think you should add Javanese, 98 million people speak it.
+4
Level 80
Oct 7, 2021
It's not an official language of any independent nation.
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Level 51
Oct 7, 2021
How did i forgot Japanese?
+4
Level 48
Oct 7, 2021
I couldn't think of any language starting with E...
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Level 60
Oct 7, 2021
I got Quechua but completely missed B and C.
+3
Level 74
Oct 7, 2021
British English and Cypriot Greek for those.
+1
Level 67
Jan 17, 2022
Cypriot Greek is a pretty cool European language.
+1
Level 47
Mar 16, 2024
For that I put Bengali and Catalan and I’m 12
+5
Level 50
Oct 7, 2021
I'm kinda embarrassed that I couldn't even think of English
+2
Level 63
Oct 7, 2021
Yet another quiz that reveals I am a dummy.
+5
Level 73
Oct 7, 2021
I literally got all of them but English 🤡
+3
Level 63
Oct 7, 2021
Sami is an official language in Norway
+1
Level 69
Oct 7, 2021
Sign is an official language in New Zealand along with English and Maori
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Level 69
Jun 3, 2022
Sign language is an umbrella term of a group of languages, but they are not universal and definitely not mutually intelligible. Each of these languages have their own names.

The american one is ASL (American Sign Language), the french one is LSF, the brazilian one is Libras, and so forth.

If you type in New Zealand Sign Language the quiz will allow it because that's the actual name of the one from NZ.

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Level 68
Oct 12, 2021
No Ndebele for N?
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
Ndebele is split into Northern Ndebele (Zimbabwe) and Southern Ndebele (South Africa).
+3
Level 70
Oct 13, 2021
I missed English, the bottom of that cavern is looking mighty friendly today.
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Level 52
Oct 13, 2021
I'm so happy I remembered Quechua :D
+1
Level 44
Nov 5, 2021
Really? No W or Y?

There’s Yiddish and Welsh

Both are European languages.

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Level 56
Apr 14, 2022
Yeah, but neither are official. (Welsh is official in Wales, but not in the UK)
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Level 41
Dec 9, 2021
I think you missed Creole and Punjabi.
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Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
Creole is a type of language when a mixed language for communication of a group without a common language, a Pidgin, becomes a native language of the next generation.
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Level 72
Apr 25, 2023
You have to specify which creole you mean. Like Haitian Creole.
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
Creole is a type of language. There are many Creoles which are accepted like Haitian Creole (Haiti), Mauritian Creole (Mauritius), etc. Punjabi is not an official language in India or Pakistan.
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Level 56
Mar 24, 2022
after mandarin, china has more languages.

like wu chinese and yue chinese.

please accept this

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Level 63
Dec 2, 2023
Caveats: "Must be an official language of the entire country"
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Level 74
Mar 25, 2022
Wow, so many comments saying “why not this language or that language?” Does no one look it up and see if it is an official language, before commenting? Because they’re wrong in almost every instance… you’re already on the internet, maybe have a little peek at Wikipedia first?
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Level 56
Apr 14, 2022
I would really like to see this as the top comment. A language being popular doesn't mean much on quizzes like this.
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Level 47
May 1, 2022
Why did I get K from typing in Rwanda?
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Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
Atlantic-Congo languages of Africa like Kinyarwanda, Rwanda's official language use noun classes - which are used in many Indo-European languages and called grammatical gender - to represent different forms of things like countries. Countries like Rwanda can have prefixes to make it a "class" such as person of the country or a language of the country, so Kinya- is a prefix on Rwanda to make it it's language, which is probably why Rwanda is accepted.
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Level 66
May 19, 2022
Comment after Estonian should be removed, as there are only 2 languages for "E"
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Level 69
Jun 3, 2022
omg How come Yoruba is not an official language of Nigeria? Colonialism is bizarre
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Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
I'd also like it if more native languages were promoted but keeping >500 languages' speakers satisfied with their language's place is also bizarre so colonial languages are still common in former colonies.
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Level 66
Jun 23, 2022
I couldn't think of anything for E.....
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Level 63
Aug 23, 2022
Neither Dhivehi nor Maldivian, the two terms for the official language of the Maldives, are accepted. At least one should be an answer, and the language is definitely the official language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Maldives

Not sure why I instantly tried Dhivehi for D though

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Level 57
Nov 22, 2022
Japanese is not the official language of Japan, it is only de facto
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Level 33
Jan 14, 2023
I couldn't find a language with "i"... I am Italian
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Level 50
Jan 17, 2023
Make it like official languages yoruba igbo javanese etc.
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
None of those are official.
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Level 63
Feb 27, 2023
Time limit makes it harder to think as rushing. why not another minute?
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Level 52
Mar 26, 2023
ndebele seems to be missing
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
There are two languages by the name Ndebele, you have to specify. Northern Ndebele and Southern Ndebele are both accepted answers.
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Level 60
Jul 25, 2023
Great quiz! Couldn't think of any languages on K at first but then guessed khmer literally in the very last second
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Level 51
Aug 21, 2023
Jamaican patois has been recognized as a language, and it is one of the official ones of that country.
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Level 65
Aug 30, 2023
Oromo is an official language of Ethiopia, why is O empty?
+1
Level 67
Oct 9, 2023
Please add Oromo
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Level 47
Dec 2, 2023
I wanted to type in "Vulcan" for V.
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Level 28
Dec 2, 2023
I couldn't spell the languages that start with N
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Level 66
Dec 2, 2023
I got stuck on E ... I am an English speaker. I need more coffee.
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Level 63
Dec 2, 2023
No comma should be present at the end of E, there are only two answers. Both Divehi and Maldivian are missing (different names for the same official language of the Maldives). Oromo is official in Ethiopia since 2020.
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Level 64
Dec 2, 2023
Mali made Bambara official
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Level 48
Dec 4, 2023
Faroese wasn't accepted, but it's official in Denmark I believe
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Level 21
Dec 4, 2023
ggs 100% tough test holy
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Level 39
Dec 5, 2023
i got xhosa but not spanish...
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
Others have mentioned it before, but Oromo (Ethiopia) is a potential answer for O.

Technically you can also have Weenhayek & Yaminawa/Yuki/Yuracaré due to Bolivia, so you should add a caveat excluding them. Something like "Only the 3 most prominent languages of Bolivia are considered"?

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Level 49
Dec 5, 2023
Welsh is an official language of the UK. In fact, it's the only de jure language of the entire country. English is de facto.
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Level 72
Dec 5, 2023
It's official in Wales, but not the rest of the UK.
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Level 79
Dec 22, 2023
Tried quenya just for kicks. Alas.
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Level 87
Jan 4, 2024
Geez, what's the rush? Is this a knowledge quiz or a typing test?
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Level 57
Feb 28, 2024
Kannada?
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Level 59
Mar 8, 2024
Basque should count for B. Also, why is the timer so short? I get its not a super difficult quiz but it does require a certain amount of thinking.
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Level 47
Mar 16, 2024
It should be illegal to not include Punjabi, Tibetan, or Nepalese
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Level 32
Feb 21, 2025
punjabi and tibetan is not the official language of any country.
+1
Level 79
Dec 10, 2025
It should be illegal to write comments without doing any fact-checking first.
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Level 32
May 17, 2024
Hi, Can I translate the quiz to German?
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Level 77
Aug 3, 2024
22/23, ran out of time before I could get K even though there were some easy ones like Korean
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Level 49
Oct 14, 2024
Wheres Oromo its an official language in ethiopia with around 45 million speakers
+5
Level 32
Dec 18, 2024
Latin is the official language of the Vatican
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Level 16
Jan 11, 2025
Indeed, it should be added to the quizz.
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Level 55
Jan 7, 2025
Ndebele is one of the official languages of South Africa, and it does not accept it for N.
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Level 67
Feb 27, 2025
kept typing Quecha instead of Quechua and nearly cost me!
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Level 28
May 27, 2025
What about Welsh?
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Level 31
Aug 27, 2025
javanese?
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Level 19
Sep 1, 2025
why not oromo for O? i thought it has official status in ethiopia
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Level 53
Oct 19, 2025
Basque and Galician are also official languages
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Level 51
Dec 10, 2025
Please, add Latin, it's the official language in Vatican.
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Level 48
Dec 10, 2025
Yiddish and Wolof ?
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Level 57
Dec 10, 2025
I typed Moldovan as a test and it worked but this was changed to Romanian in 2023, as they were the same language all along, so they changed it to Romanian oficially.

Only Transnistria still considers Moldovan an official language, but that does not count on Jetpunk, does it?

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Level 65
Dec 10, 2025
I thought Oromo was official in Ethiopia
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Level 46
Dec 10, 2025
Please add more time
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Level 50
Dec 10, 2025
So just some food for thought:

- Afar, Oromo and Tigrinya are all official languages in Ethiopia.

- Many African countries have very recently dropped French as an official language and adopted new ones. These include:

>Niger (Hausa)

>Mali (Bambara)

>Burkina Faso (Moore, Fula, Dyula, and Bissa)

- Also recently Papua New Guinea declared Papua New Guinea sign Language (PNGSL) an official language

Not trying to be a pedant, just trying to help you with any updates. Fun quiz!

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Level 27
Dec 10, 2025
Odia is an official language of India, spoken by 34 million.
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Level 57
Dec 10, 2025
Ethiopia has Oromo as one of their official languages. Nigeria has Yoruba as one of the three official languages.
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Level 34
Dec 11, 2025
I forgot English for E. I speak English
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Level 31
Dec 11, 2025
Welsh ??
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Level 32
Jan 2, 2026
what about yiddish or wolof