"Kikongo" is the official language of _____.
Answer: D
It is the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kikongo is one of four national languages there, with Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba; French is the official language. Lingala is the language of the army and of Congolese music.
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Which is the official language of "Rwanda"?
Answer: D
It is Kinyarwanda.
Kinyarwanda is spoken by virtually all Rwandans, an unusual degree of linguistic unity in Africa. English, French and Swahili are also official, English having been added in 2003 and Swahili in 2017.
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"Slovak" is the official language of _____.
Answer: D
It is Slovakia.
Slovak is a West Slavic language, very close to Czech, and speakers of each understand the other with little difficulty. It became the sole state language when Czechoslovakia divided in 1993.
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Which is the official language of "Mauritius"?
Answer: C
It is English.
The constitution names no official language, but English is the language of the National Assembly and of administration. Most Mauritians speak Mauritian Creole at home, and French dominates the press.
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Which is the official language of "Brunei"?
Answer: A
It is Malay.
Standard Malay is the official language of Brunei, written in both the Latin alphabet and Jawi, the Arabic-derived script that remains in ceremonial and religious use.
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Which is the official language of "Nepal"?
Answer: B
It is Nepali.
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari, and is the official language of Nepal. The constitution also makes every mother tongue spoken in Nepal an official language of its province.
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Which is the official language of "Suriname"?
Answer: A
It is Dutch.
Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking country in South America, having been a Netherlands colony until 1975. Sranan Tongo, an English-based creole, serves as the lingua franca, and Hindustani and Javanese are widely spoken.
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Which is the official language of "Tonga"?
Answer: C
It is English.
Tongan and English are both official. Tonga is the only Pacific island nation never formally colonised, having kept its monarchy through a period as a British protected state.
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Which is the official language of "Iran"?
Answer: C
It is Persian.
Persian, called Farsi in Iran, is written in a modified Arabic alphabet and is an Indo-European language, unrelated to Arabic despite the shared script and heavy borrowing.
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Which is the official language of "Liberia"?
Answer: A
It is English.
Liberia was founded in 1822 as a settlement for freed American slaves and was never colonised, so English arrived with the settlers rather than with a colonial power. Liberian English and about thirty indigenous languages are spoken alongside it.
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