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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Which is the official language of "Burkina Faso"?
Answer: C
It is French.
Burkina Faso was Upper Volta under French rule until 1960, and French remains the language of administration. Moore, Dioula and Fulfulde are the principal national languages.
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Which is the official language of "Cyprus"?
Answer: C
It is Turkish.
Cyprus has two official languages, Greek and Turkish, both named in the constitution of 1960. Turkish is the language of the north, and Greek of the areas under the republic's control.
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Which is the official language of "Equatorial Guinea"?
Answer: B
It is Spanish.
Equatorial Guinea is the only sovereign state in Africa with Spanish as an official language, having been Spanish Guinea until 1968. French and Portuguese were added later as co-official.
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"English" is the official language of _____.
Answer: B
It is Guyana.
Guyana is the only South American country with English as its official language, having been British Guiana until 1966. Guyanese Creole is the common speech, and nine Amerindian languages are also spoken.
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"Arabic" is the official language of _____
Answer: B
It is Qatar.
Arabic is the official language. English is the common second language, and most of Qatar's residents are expatriates speaking Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Nepali or Tagalog.
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"English" is the official language of _____.
Answer: D
It is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
English is the official language, with Vincentian Creole English spoken day to day. The islands were British from 1763 until independence in 1979.
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Which is the official language of "Japan"?
Answer: D
It is Japanese.
Japanese is written with three scripts used together: kanji taken from Chinese, and the hiragana and katakana syllabaries. It has no established relationship to any other language family.
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