"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 "Slovenia"?
Answer: B
It is Slovene.
Slovene is a South Slavic language with a rare feature: it keeps the dual number, a separate grammatical form for exactly two, lost in almost every other living Indo-European language.
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"English" is the official language of _____.
Answer: C
It is the Solomon Islands.
English is the official language, while Solomons Pijin is the lingua franca of a country with more than 70 languages. English is spoken by only a small minority.
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Which is the official language of "Somalia"?
Answer: B
It is Somali.
Somali and Arabic are both official. Somali is a Cushitic language, given a Latin orthography only in 1972, after long dispute between Latin, Arabic and the indigenous Osmanya script.
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"Sotho" is the official language of _____.
Answer: D
It is South Africa.
South Africa has twelve official languages, including Sesotho and the related Sepedi and Setswana. Zulu has the most speakers, and South African Sign Language was added in 2023.
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Which is the official language of "South Sudan"?
Answer: B
It is English.
South Sudan made English its sole official language at independence in 2011, a deliberate break from Arabic in the north. Juba Arabic and Dinka are the languages most widely spoken.
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"Spanish" is the official language of _____.
Answer: A
It is Spain.
Castilian Spanish is official throughout the state, and Catalan, Galician, Basque, Aranese and Valencian are co-official in their own communities. Basque is unrelated to any other known language.
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Which is the official language of "Sri Lanka"?
Answer: D
It is Sinhala.
Sinhala and Tamil are both official, Tamil having regained that status in 1987 after the Sinhala Only Act of 1956 removed it - a measure that contributed directly to the civil conflict. English is the link language.
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"Arabic" is the official language of _____.
Answer: B
It is Sudan.
Arabic and English are both official. Sudanese Arabic is the spoken form, and Beja, Fur and Nubian are among the many other languages of the country.
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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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