Country Languages Questions and Answers

Answer: C

It is Kosovo.

Albanian and Serbian are both official languages, with Turkish, Bosnian and Romani given official status at municipal level where their speakers are concentrated.

Answer: B

It is Arabic.

Arabic is the official language of Kuwait. English is the main second language, and large expatriate communities speak Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog and Bengali.

Answer: C

It is Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyz is the state language and Russian has official status, a division written into the constitution. Kyrgyz is a Turkic language written in Cyrillic.

Answer: A

It is Lao.

Lao is a Tai-Kadai language, closely related to Thai and largely intelligible with it, written in its own script derived from the same Khmer source as Thai.

Answer: A

It is Latvia.

Latvian and Lithuanian are the only surviving Baltic languages, the most archaic branch of Indo-European still spoken, retaining features lost elsewhere.

Answer: A

It is Arabic.

Arabic is the sole official language of Lebanon. French, from the mandate period, remains widely used in education, and English is now common in business.

Answer: A

It is Lesotho.

English and Sesotho are both official in Lesotho, which was the British protectorate of Basutoland until 1966. Sesotho is spoken by virtually the whole population.

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.

Answer: A

It is Libya.

Arabic is the official language, and Libyan Arabic the spoken form. Berber languages such as Nafusi and Tamahaq are spoken in the west and the Saharan south.

Answer: B

It is German.

German is the official language of the principality, though the everyday speech is an Alemannic dialect close to that of neighbouring Switzerland and Vorarlberg.