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12.

Which is the official language of "Namibia"?

Answer: C

It is English.

Namibia chose English as its sole official language at independence in 1990, though it was the first language of very few Namibians - a deliberate break from Afrikaans, the language of South African administration.

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14.

"English" is the official language of _____.

Answer: D

It is Sierra Leone.

English is the official language, brought by the freed slaves settled at Freetown from 1787. Krio, an English-based creole that grew from their speech, is spoken by most of the population as a second language.

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15.

"Indonesian" is the official language of _____.

Answer: C

It is Indonesia.

Indonesian is a standardised form of Malay, adopted as the national language in 1945 in preference to Javanese, which has far more native speakers, precisely because it belonged to no dominant group.

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18.

"Swahili" is the official language of _____

Answer: B

It is Kenya.

Swahili and English are both official under the 2010 constitution, Swahili also being the national language. It is a Bantu language with heavy Arabic borrowing, and serves as a lingua franca across East Africa.

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19.

Which is the official language of "Tajikistan"?

Answer: C

It is Persian.

Tajik is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan, differing from Iranian Persian chiefly in being written in Cyrillic and in its Russian borrowings. Russian is recognised as the language of interethnic communication.

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20.

"Quechua" is the official language of _____.

Answer: A

It is Peru.

Quechua and Aymara are official alongside Spanish wherever they predominate. Quechua was the administrative language of the Inca empire and still has some eight million speakers across the Andes.

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