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Category Elimination - Official Languages
In each group, name any answer which matches the first category to reveal the second category, then name any answer which applies to both categories to reveal a third, and so on.
# = the number of answers possible. Answer must correspond to the highlighted yellow box.
Speakers = native speakers. Only speakers in the referring continent.
Bolivia has 37 official languages, and Zimbabwe 16 - this quiz includes the three most prominent
I disagree. It's clue that only works if you have already identified the finalists resulting from the previous questions. It's not something unique that can be assessed independently as the rest.
I think it’s fine. You just have to read the clue as it is and think about what might be considered a unique letter. It’s pretty straightforward and there are only 3 languages that fit the clue alone: Zulu, Xhosa, and Quechua.
I have no idea how but I managed to get 100% my first try! I was frantically typing asain languages and got malay just a couple seconds before time ran out!
Cool quiz - nominated. Tried Quechua as the unique-lettered language, but discovered afterwards it's official in more than one country - Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at least.
Apparently Farsi is Persian spoken in Iran while Dari and Tajiki is Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan respectively. They're mutually intelligible but not exactly the same.
It reminds me a bit of Holland vs Netherlands --- it's okay to use the term Holland if you're very specifically talking about Holland, but despite Holland being in the Netherlands, the two words aren't synonymous.
That's close, but Farsi is just the native name for Persian, which ended up becoming used in English as well though it's not the English name. The Persian dialect of Iran is called Western Persian or just Persian as the others are seen as dialects.
Doesn't Bulgarian work for the blue one? Official only in Bulgaria. Official in EU because official in Bulgaria. A shade over 10 million speakers (only 7 million native but the question doesn't say native speakers) and uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
Can that question be changed to “only language to start with that letter” or something similar? I interpreted the “unique letter” as starting with a letter that doesn’t appear elsewhere in the word.
Greek is official in 2 countries! Cyprus exists, it's in the EU and uses Greek!
And I get that for you Cyprus isn't in Europe (wrongly), but with the reference to EU before, it's absolutely misleading to imply it's not an European country.
Apparently Farsi is Persian spoken in Iran while Dari and Tajiki is Persian spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan respectively. They're mutually intelligible but not exactly the same.
It reminds me a bit of Holland vs Netherlands --- it's okay to use the term Holland if you're very specifically talking about Holland, but despite Holland being in the Netherlands, the two words aren't synonymous.
And I get that for you Cyprus isn't in Europe (wrongly), but with the reference to EU before, it's absolutely misleading to imply it's not an European country.
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