Official European Union Languages

Name the languages that have official status in EU countries.

Note: Cyrillic and Hellenic alphabets cannot be used.

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Official in:	Language
Bulgaria	Bulgarian (български)
Croatia	Croatian (hrvatski)
Czech Republic	Czech (čeština)
Denmark	Danish (dansk)
Belgium, Netherlands	Dutch (nederlands)
Ireland, Malta	English
Estonia	Estonian (eesti keel)
Finland	Finnish (suomi)
Belgium, France, Luxembourg	French (français)
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg	German (deutsch)
Cyprus, Greece	Greek (ελληνικά)
Hungary	Hungarian (magyar)

Official in:	Language
Ireland	Irish (Gaeilge)
Italy	Italian (italiano)
Latvia	Latvian (latviešu valoda)
Lithuania	Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba)
Malta	Maltese (malti)
Poland	Polish (polski)
Portugal	Portuguese (português)
Romania	Romanian (română)
Slovakia	Slovak (slovenčina)
Slovenia	Slovene (slovenščina)
Spain	Spanish (español)
Finland, Sweden	Swedish (svenska)

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101 Recent Comments

Level 58

Jul 5, 2018

If "Note: Cyrillic and Hellenic alphabets cannot be used." (in the description), then why is Greek an official language?

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Level 82

Jul 17, 2018

You don't see the different between Greek and ελληνικά?

+10

Level 71

Dec 16, 2018

it just means you have to use the roman alphabet to type the answers

Level 57

Jan 14, 2021

The caveat doesn’t specify whether the EU won’t use Cyrillic/Greek scripts, or if it just won’t accept an answer written in that language. It threw me off for a bit too, until I entered in Greek and it worked.

Level 68

Oct 5, 2023

The quiz doesn't accept these alphabets. The EU very much does.

Level 45

Jul 17, 2018

My strategy is I do the best i can on the first try then i study the answers and then I do the ones i missed first and the i type the obvious ones like french

Level 58

Nov 28, 2018

I missed English. Omg!!!

Level 50

Dec 9, 2018

We all miss it ;)

Level 50

Dec 7, 2018

Why do all the languages appear in their native form in parenthesis except Irish, which is written as "gaelic" - an English word?

The correct translation is "Gaeilge"

Level 50

Dec 9, 2018

Fixed, thanks!

Level 71

Dec 16, 2018

I think it is a nice touch you added all the native words for the languages

Level 43

Dec 8, 2018

I’m from Ireland and speak Irish and yeah it is gaeilge

Level 50

Dec 9, 2018

Noted, thanks!

Level 43

Dec 8, 2018

I got all of them, very easy.

Less time??

Level 50

Dec 9, 2018

Okay, let me change it to less :)

Level 71

Dec 16, 2018

Ahh soo there is the problem... I need a bit MORE time, so if I did this quiz two weeks ago, I might ve passed ;)

Level 71

Dec 16, 2018

Ugh I forgot irish, did get malta though.. and I knew/tried the others I missed but apparently wrote them wrong. I know the countries in english, but to turn those words into the names of the language isnt allways as easy (especially since it isnt consistant , some are -ish others are -ian etc) Wasted time on norway tried norwegian norse nordic....

Level 21

Jan 13, 2019

Wow... I didn't even know Malta was a real country. I thought they made it up for The Maltese Falcon. Like Xanadu or El Dorado. You learn something new every day.

Level 23

Jan 17, 2019

I wrote Maltese as a joke because Malta came into my mind, didn't know it was an actual language

Level 48

Feb 1, 2019

I can't believe I got all but Italian.

Level 82

Feb 20, 2019

Luxembourgish should be on here.

Level 72

May 16, 2023

While Luxembourgish is an official language of Luxembourg, it is not an official language of the EU.

Level 40

Mar 11, 2019

I thought this was for the UN, not the EU, and I was sooo confused

Level 41

Mar 25, 2019

Well the UK is leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 according to Google. So does that mean that the EU quizzes have to change after that?

Level 82

May 10, 2019

Probably but it won't much affect this quiz.

Level 50

May 13, 2019

Funny, but it hasn't yet left the EU.

Level 29

Feb 25, 2021

English is still an official EU language because Ireland and Malta are still in.

Level 43

Sep 10, 2024

Nope. Each country chooses an official language. Ireland has Irish and Malta has Maltese. English is not an official language in the EU.

Level 22

Nov 24, 2021

ThE Uk LeFt ThE eU

Level 47

Jul 23, 2019

I was surprised to not see Luxembourgish on here.

Level 43

Aug 22, 2019

Seeing as the names in between parentheses are the names in the native language, I gather that Irish should be "Irish (gailge)" and not "Irish (gaelic)",

Level 50

Oct 11, 2019

Good call!

Level 48

Oct 9, 2019

Am I the only one that wrote andorranese and netherlandish - hahaha

Level 50

Oct 11, 2019

Hahaha, I guess.

Level 66

Nov 8, 2019

I had 23 with 2 minutes left, took me until 22 seconds to remember that Maltese existed. Great quiz!

Level 50

Jan 4, 2020

Thank you, I appreciate your feedback!

Level 60

Nov 29, 2019

The description of the quiz is wrong. The languages included here are the ones having official status in the EU (as a whole) and not the languages having official status in EU countries as the description says. The latter includes all the answers of this quiz plus Luxembourgish (official in Luxembourg) and Turkish (official in Cyprus).

Level 40

Dec 6, 2019

forgot polish and hungarian. no idea how

Level 64

Feb 3, 2020

You will have to remove the UK now :(

Level ∞

Feb 3, 2020

Updated

Level 56

May 19, 2020

I think you should also accept Serbo-Croatian for Croatian

Level 72

May 19, 2020

I doubt you typed "Serbo-Croatian" without thinking of typing Croatian first. But yea, add it

Level 48

Jun 10, 2021

someone in the balkans is being beat up because you said that.

Level 72

May 19, 2020

Why isn't Luxembourgish one of them?

Level 74

May 19, 2020

exactly

Level 74

May 19, 2020

And btw Croatian, Slovene and Hungarian are also official languages of Austria

Level 29

May 19, 2020

You really need to change the description to 'Official languages in the EU, not the EU countries.

That means that Letzebuergesch should be one, and other official languages of the country.

Level 36

May 19, 2020

Embarrased I missed hungarian...

Level 32

Jun 6, 2020

I feel ridiculously stupid. I missed English, and it’s my native language.

Level 53

Jun 8, 2020

lol i was missing two and then got them on the last minute, they were irish and english

Level 60

Jul 8, 2020

Luxembourgish is a national language in Luxembourg, which was a founding member of the EU. Any reason it isn’t included? I know it doesn’t technically have “official status,” but neither do German or French in Luxembourg, they’re administrative languages.

Level 50

Aug 10, 2020

Luxembourgish is not official in the EU, but German and French are.

Level 51

Nov 8, 2020

What about Albanian or Macedonian?

Level 50

Nov 19, 2020

What about them?

Level 29

Feb 25, 2021

Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo are not in the EU.

Level 11

Dec 2, 2020

nanananana your faster time is 1:24

Level 64

Dec 15, 2020

How. Did. I. Miss. SPANISH??????

Level 42

Dec 28, 2020

I kept typing Norwegian even though Norway isn’t part of the eu

Level 58

Jan 24, 2021

Could anyone explain why Maltese and Irish are official languages but not Luxembourgish? Come on, their status are almost the same

Level 50

Jan 26, 2021

It's because Luxembourg hasn't requested to have Luxembourgish as an official EU language.

Level 21

Sep 3, 2023

malti is the official language of malta alongside english.

Level 26

Mar 22, 2021

I almost forgot irish, since I saw it come up next to english before

Level 38

Mar 26, 2021

Luxembourg was one of the founding members and they didn't even get their language represented, F.

Level 54

Mar 7, 2022

Yes, but the EU to not translate their documents into Luxembourgish as Luxembourg have not applied for that to be done.

Level 48

Aug 1, 2021

Looks like many people tend to forget that Malta is a European country.

Level 68

Aug 4, 2021

Just forgot Polish, tryna get this language badge and making good progress

Level 59

Nov 12, 2021

somehow i only forgot Portuguese

Level 67

Dec 1, 2021

Can you accept Croat please?

Level 59

Dec 5, 2021

I almost missed French... the MOST obvious one...

Level 62

Dec 22, 2021

It said that english is spoken in Malta and Ireland,well what about the UK...then I remembered the UK left the EU in 2019.

Level 64

Jan 31, 2022

turkish is also an europian language. It's spoken in northern Cyprus

Level 34

Mar 8, 2022

That was easier than i would have thought.

Level 43

Mar 14, 2022

I forgot Italian....

Level 49

May 4, 2022

I forgot ENGLISH

Level 52

Jun 8, 2022

Luxembourgish....?

Level 41

Feb 22, 2023

Yeah, I tried that and thought, "wait a minute, isn't Luxembourgish an official language of Luxembourg?"

Level 43

Jun 10, 2022

I typed Sloven for Slovene and Maltese for Maltan, and those were the only ones I missed -_- *face palm*

Level 16

Jun 13, 2022

100% 2:06

Level 39

Jul 21, 2022

I think Luxembourgish is missing!

Level 50

Jul 25, 2022

Luxembourg hasn't asked to include Luxembourgish as an official language of the EU.

Level 47

Oct 27, 2022

I forgot Greek!!

Level 56

Nov 25, 2022

Actually, English isn’t an official language in Ireland. The only official language here is Irish.

Level 61

Mar 10, 2024

False, while Irish is the first official language, English is also official, hence why all government documents are produced in both Irish and English.

Level 17

Dec 2, 2022

forgot spanish and portuguese

Level 21

Dec 15, 2022

I didn't expect Malta to have it's own language, let alone that language to be recognized by the European union! That is pretty cool!

Level 42

Mar 24, 2023

I miss french :skull:

Level 64

Apr 7, 2023

Isn't Turkish also an official language of Cyprus?

Level 50

Apr 9, 2023

Yes, but it's not an official language of the European Union.

Level 65

May 5, 2023

22/24

MISSED FRENCH AND CZECH

Level 51

Jun 8, 2023

Sweet Jesus, I got everything except Spanish lmao.

Level 46

Jul 20, 2023

I MISSED HUNGARIAN BRUH

Level 21

Sep 3, 2023

aha its strange seeing people not get malta but then again i am maltese

Level 65

Sep 29, 2023

Seeing that you put Belgium as having Dutch as official language, you might consider adding Flemish as a type-in for Dutch.

Level 30

Sep 29, 2023

I got Croatian with 2 seconds remaining!

Level 34

Sep 30, 2023

never even stepped FOOT in eurpose and i got 100%! Thank you internet you won today

Level 69

Oct 1, 2023

Sorry but as far as I know official languages of Luxembourg are german,french and luxembourgish so the last one needs to be added.

Level 72

Nov 20, 2023

The EU does not have Luxembourgish as an official language.

Level 27

Jan 29, 2024

finnish in finnish is suomalainen not suomi

Level 33

May 8, 2024

Forever will I wonder why Frisian isn’t on this list

Level 26

May 11, 2024

Hello,

I´ve translated the quiz to german, hope it is okay for you. If not, please contact me.

Level 46

May 23, 2024

22/24 :3

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