Countries by Languages in 90 Seconds

level 72

Feb 29, 2016

Nice quiz, but Sirionó, Tacana and Tapieté are missing.

level 71

Mar 1, 2016

I guess it's because they are missing from the quiz mentioned in the notes

level 72

May 2, 2016

Which notes?

level 71

May 26, 2016

I think the link got removed when this quiz got featured - the quiz that was mentioned in the notes is Official Languages of the World

vigeneus

level 55

Mar 10, 2017

Why the result be country? Isn't it language that's the answer?

TomHolland

level 58

Sep 22, 2018

No. The country is the answer.

LawyerDoctorKab1

level 31

Mar 17, 2019

that quiz got me thinking but i did it and got the language badge

level 72

Mar 9, 2016

Also, since Indonesian and Malay are the same language, would you accept all countries for both languages if you type in either?

level ∞

Mar 10, 2016

Malay works for both. But it would be incorrect to say that the Indonesian dialect is official in Malaysia.

level 72

May 2, 2016

I promise you (as someone who did Malay-Indonesian at school) that the Indonesian and Malay languages are one and the same.

JuanLim

level 32

Jun 18, 2019

The Malay language and Indonesian language are similar, but also very different. The people there can understand each other at least 50% of the time. In Malaysia, the language is called Bahasa Malaysia (used to be Bahasa Melayu) and in Indonesia, its Bahasa Indonesia (surprise surprise).

immanuel

level 67

May 16, 2017

i'm indonesian and indonesian and malay are not the same.There are so many ethnic groups in indonesian one of them is malay ans the malay has its own languange and they've been using it since 1000 A.D.

immanuel

level 67

May 16, 2017

but they are very resemble not the same Ex:1. In Indonesian Apa means what In Malay Apa means what,too but they read it like a-pe 2.Few words have no the same meaning like :dullness(kesuraman) is kecemasan in Malaysia 3.Malay languange have been assimilating with english (pedestrian etc)

NJR

level 60

Jul 13, 2019

I tried Bahasa for both first.

Dontneedone

level 71

Mar 9, 2016

Got 165. 90 seconds is pretty short, missed some easy ones.

ander217

level 76

May 26, 2016

Same here. I don't understand the need for so little time. It turns it into a fast typing test rather than a test of knowledge. it would be difficult enough with more time. Bah.

level 60

Mar 9, 2016

And please accept the other 34 official languages of Bolivia - this includes Guaraní, Castellano, and Chimán.

level ∞

Mar 10, 2016

Having so many official languages seems like it must create a lot of nice jobs for bureaucrats.

level 60

Mar 10, 2016

Then would a note in the caveats be of good use?

redsplat

level 75

Apr 12, 2016

It must make for a nice inclusive, diverse society as well.

level 60

Apr 20, 2016

True!

level 72

May 2, 2016

Interesting that four of those official languages (Canichana, Cayubaba, Guarasuawe and Puquina if you must know) are actually extinct! Weirder still, German doesn't have official status, despite being spoken by 160,000 people.

tshalla

level 67

May 26, 2016

They're largely Mennonite, Jerry, and of relatively late arrival. This isn't to say that this ought to disqualify German as an official language, but I don't know a lot of places where immigrant groups not from the dominant colonizing society get that sort of official national recognition.

Supertramp

level 49

Feb 6, 2017

It was mainly a populist strategy. The 36 languages was supported by the notion that there are 36 indigenous nations in Bolivia, thus dividing the opposition cities (on the east) where there are many more "nations".

foxpenguin

level 76

Mar 10, 2016

Tagalog for Philippines?

level ∞

Mar 10, 2016

Tagalog works

LarryLovage

level 58

May 31, 2016

No it doesn't.

CalmDownItsOnlyAGame

level 70

Jun 4, 2016

Didn't work for me.

helenap13

level 62

Jun 22, 2016

Nor me

jsmay311

level 59

Nov 10, 2017

Still doesn't work.

level ∞

Nov 10, 2017

It still works for me. Going to file this one under computer gremlins.

kogatora

level 79

Jan 7, 2018

it won't work if it already accepted english, presumably most of the comments below typed in english first

catlover2496

level 39

Jul 8, 2018

Doesn't work for me.

Cog

level 64

Feb 16, 2018

Why not just type English?

level 60

Mar 10, 2016

Just like with the "borders" version, what is the least number of languages needed to get all 196 countries?

level 60

Mar 10, 2016

I counted somewhere in the near-65 range

level 71

Mar 12, 2016

I counted 53 - i started adding all the ones that are unique to some countries and not that many were left out. Need to type Serbo-Croatian so that Montenegro gets counted, too. This is what I got 1 Albanian, 2 Amharic, 3 Arabic, 4 Armenian, 5 Azerbaijani, 6 Bengali, 7 Bulgarian, 8 Burmese, 9 Catalan, 10 Chinese, 11 Czech, 12 Danish, 13 Dutch, 14 Dzongkha, 15 English, 16 Estonian, 17 French, 18 Georgian, 19 German, 20 Greek, 21 Hungarian, 22 Icelandic, 23 Italian, 24 Japanese, 25 Khmer, 26 Korean, 27 Lao, 28 Latvian, 29 Lithuanian, 30 Macedonian, 31 Malay, 32 Maldivian, 33 Mongolian, 34 Nepali, 35 Norwegian, 36 Persian, 37 Polish, 38 Portuguese, 39 Romanian, 40 Russian, 41 Slovak, 42 Slovene, 43 Spanish, 44 Swedish, 45 Thai, 46 Tswana, 47 Turkish, 48 Turkmen, 49 Ukrainian, 50 Uzbek, 51 Vietnamese, 52 Serbo-Croatian, 53 Tamil

level 60

Mar 12, 2016

Very cool, and I assume that's the fastest and only way to go with the least. Besides type-ins of course

level 71

Mar 12, 2016

I think the only option is tamil/sinhala because the first 51 are unique in some country and you are then left with parts of exJugoslavia and Sri Lanka

level 60

Mar 12, 2016

Azeri for Azerbaijani, Portugese for Portuguese, Dari for Persian, Dzongka for Dzongkha.

level 60

Mar 12, 2016

Which only eliminates 11 characters. 12 if you do "Serbocroatian" for Serbo-Croatian.

level 71

Mar 13, 2016

but Persian gets you three countries, Dari only gets one

level 60

Mar 20, 2016

Then just Azeri, Portugese, and Dzongka.

level 60

Mar 20, 2016

((1 Albanian, 2 Amharic, 3 Arabic, 4 Armenian, 5 Azeri, 6 Bengali, 7 Bulgarian, 8 Burmese, 9 Catalan, 10 Chinese, 11 Czech, 12 Danish, 13 Dutch, 14 Dzongka, 15 English, 16 Estonian, 17 French, 18 Georgian, 19 German, 20 Greek, 21 Hungarian, 22 Icelandic, 23 Italian, 24 Japanese, 25 Khmer, 26 Korean, 27 Lao, 28 Latvian, 29 Lithuanian, 30 Macedonian, 31 Malay, 32 Maldivian, 33 Mongolian, 34 Nepali, 35 Norwegian, 36 Persian, 37 Polish, 38 Portugese, 39 Romanian, 40 Russian, 41 Slovak, 42 Slovene, 43 Spanish, 44 Swedish, 45 Thai, 46 Tswana, 47 Turkish, 48 Turkmen, 49 Ukrainian, 50 Uzbek, 51 Vietnamese, 52 Serbocroatian, 53 Tamil)) is the least amount of chars.

level 71

Mar 20, 2016

I exported the answers to check for shorter type-ins etc: you can use FARSI instead of PERSIAN, DIVEHI instead of MALDIVIAN, BANGLA instead of BENGALI

geographyisthebestsubject

level 60

Apr 5, 2016

Okay, so ((1 Albanian, 2 Amharic, 3 Arabic, 4 Armenian, 5 Azeri, 6 Bangla, 7 Bulgarian, 8 Burmese, 9 Catalan, 10 Chinese, 11 Czech, 12 Danish, 13 Dutch, 14 Dzongka, 15 English, 16 Estonian, 17 French, 18 Georgian, 19 German, 20 Greek, 21 Hungarian, 22 Icelandic, 23 Italian, 24 Japanese, 25 Khmer, 26 Korean, 27 Lao, 28 Latvian, 29 Lithuanian, 30 Macedonian, 31 Malay, 32 Divehi, 33 Mongolian, 34 Nepali, 35 Norwegian, 36 Farsi, 37 Polish, 38 Portugese, 39 Romanian, 40 Russian, 41 Slovak, 42 Slovene, 43 Spanish, 44 Swedish, 45 Thai, 46 Tswana, 47 Turkish, 48 Turkmen, 49 Ukrainian, 50 Uzbek, 51 Vietnamese, 52 Serbocroatian, 53 Tamil))

KoljiVriVoda

level 69

Mar 12, 2016

There is no such thing as Montenegrin language. It is same lake Serbian. The best solution is Sebo-Croatian (Serbian or Croatian) for Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro.

eurocrem

level 44

May 26, 2016

Nije isti kao srpski, ima par novih slova :D Ћирилица с́ з́ latinica ś ź Oni ne kazu predsednik nego preśednik :D

Liggliluff

level 16

Jan 16, 2019

Language and alphabet Article 13 The official language in Montenegro shall be Montenegrin. Cyrillic and Latin alphabet shall be equal. Serbian, Bosniac, Albanian and Croatian shall also be in the official use https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/text/187544 So Serbian, Bosnia(n/c), Albanian and Croatian shall also fill out Montenegro, just like how Swedish works for Finland.

skiesboy

level 62

Mar 16, 2016

that was pretty fun. Thanks

hellodrew

level 45

May 26, 2016

Nice quiz.

Rozzi

level 50

May 26, 2016

I can't type fast enough for this!

tshalla

level 67

May 26, 2016

Great quiz! While I assume that this comes from your source, there is no language called "Maldivian." It's called Dhivehi. That said, typing Dhivehi works, so this doesn't even constitute a complaint.

ogamer

level 46

May 26, 2016

Cool quiz, but a little more time would be great! I would like to take a closer look to the map while thinking of the languages spoken in each country... unfortunatelly, with 90 secs it is impossible to think

dasubergeek

level 66

May 26, 2016

That took three tries. Darn you, Maldivian and Dzongkha.

Cins

level 40

May 26, 2016

Same!

level 42

May 26, 2016

I found a typo. In the description, I think it should say "will be filled in", not "will be filled it." I also think more time should be added.

qcumber

level 43

May 17, 2018

yeah, there are a lot of languages that only do one country itd be nice if there were two minutes, maybe three.

oakleaf

level 55

May 26, 2016

please give more time. this is just a speed typing test. those of us with hand injuries need an extension, along with many others with dexterity issues. thanks!

gzx5

level 54

May 26, 2016

More time please, too short.

tieup

level 23

Aug 22, 2018

There's a Take Untimed button

MimaTheGreat

level 36

Apr 28, 2019

You don't get points for doing the quiz untimed. The first time I only did this for the language badge, now i'm doing it to get 100%.

WanderingWalrus

level 69

May 26, 2016

Great quiz, but needs a little more time

Eliotbliss

level 68

May 27, 2016

English is an official language of Botswana but it appears to only accept Tswana as an official language.

punkybrewster

level 71

May 27, 2016

Please, for the love of God, give us more time. I can't type that fast.

LadyMary

level 35

May 29, 2016

Azerbaijani? I always thought that they speak Turkish there... Like Romanian = Moldovan.

Ell1994

level 40

Mar 27, 2017

Azerbaijani is Turkic language like Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek and so on. Azerbaijani is the second most spoken language(more than 50 million native speakers) in Turkic family but, I would say it is the richest and the most intelligible language which means only learning Azerbaijani will help you to understand not only Turkish but also Central Asian languages

sumguy

level 76

May 29, 2016

I type 90wpm and I know all of the answers, but I can't type fast enough to get perfect.

Twinarcher

level 66

May 29, 2016

I think I'm right in saying that English isn't a legally-codified official language of the UK, but Welsh is....

Malbaby

level 67

Feb 26, 2017

Official languages of Wales are English and Welsh. In this quiz it is not needed to enter every language spoken in a country otherwise PNG would need 6,912 separate entries.

TWM03

level 57

Nov 8, 2017

In Wales the official languages are English and Welsh, but as a whole the UK does not have any official language. The UK should appear at the start because it has no official language throughout. The situation is much the same in the USA - Hawaii has English and Hawaiian as official languages but there is no nationwide official language. If the USA is given at the start the UK should be too. Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory#U . I know that Wikipedia might not be accurate so if you do have a source I would be interested to see it.

AnjaliBx

level 62

Nov 10, 2017

Yes - English is only de-facto (by practice) official as the UK's main language, not de-jure (by law) offical. (Welsh is de-jure official in Wales, making it the only language in the UK to have de-jure/legal official status, though that only applies in Wales - in the rest of the UK, Welsh is recognised regional language.)

qcumber

level 43

May 17, 2018

yeah, same in the us. it might not be 'official' but it is.

pyrrhus

level 43

Jun 1, 2016

English is also an official language of Botswana so it should be accepted in addition to Tswana.

ssucette

level 14

Jun 1, 2016

Finland shouldn't be in this one, Finland doesn't have an official language (two national languages tho, finnish and swedish).

Sifhraven

level 61

Dec 16, 2018

so you mean finland should be left out by the rest of the world? Every country in the quiz besides finland?

Ivica

level 26

Jun 9, 2016

I did it with 2 seconds to spare. I also did it while recognizing all legitimate ex-Yugo languages (eg Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin plus Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian).

tuzdayschild

level 58

Aug 24, 2016

Lot of work went into that quiz. Nice job!

JBrommit

level 45

Sep 17, 2016

if you have the top six languages spoken worldwide/the official UN languages entered in first, it's pretty easy. Hard part is the time to type all the one-country-only languages that consist of basically the entire country name with "ese" or "ian" added in.

Aesthus

level 51

Feb 26, 2017

It's depressing that not everyone typed in English.

Sifhraven

level 61

Dec 16, 2018

I typed in greek..

Ell1994

level 40

Mar 23, 2017

I did it => 174/192 and I got 5/5 points :)

Cog

level 64

Apr 17, 2017

More time please

idontlikeit2

level 63

May 20, 2017

why not unite serbian, bosnian, croatian and montenegrin as serbo-croatian? everyone knows it's basically the same language, even if they say it isn't. you've already done that for kosovo.

arpacas

level 43

Aug 2, 2017

You should include Basque, Catalan, Galician and Occitan for Spain because they're co-official languages (and I wouldn't have to type in Catalan just for Andorra)

fitheach

level 56

Nov 9, 2017

They are only co-official at the regional level, not at the national level (i.e. at the sovereign state level, which this website deals with). If you were to include such regional languages of Spain, then you would have to include a huge amount of other langauge from around the world - it would become too unwieldy.

Cog

level 64

Nov 8, 2017

Please can we have more time

GeoGuy8

level 39

Nov 12, 2017

Can you please try "Countries by Religion in 90 seconds" too?

DasCreamy109

level 53

Nov 12, 2017

Wow, completely blanked on English!!! I must be the reason English is 99% guessed. :(

divantilya

level 38

Jan 20, 2018

What language was South Africa counted under? I tried Afrikaans and it didn't accept it, so it must have been counted under either English or Dutch. If Dutch, it would be incorrect as Afrikaans, while a derivative of the Dutch language, is a language in its own right.

mikan

level 18

Feb 1, 2018

what about adding BAHASA to indonesia as correct answer?

mathdrew

level 58

Feb 27, 2018

MORE TIME PLEASE!!!

akela

level 35

Apr 11, 2018

official language in México is Spanish

Froststar101

level 57

Apr 29, 2018

100% is possible, it only took me 9 tries to finish with 6 seconds left.

someone2018

level 73

Jul 5, 2018

Not a fan of short timed quizzes, no point at all. As for memory recall speed, they're useless because the brain is way ahead of finger lag and computer lag, typos, all that irrelevance. It's better to click "Take untimed" and really quiz your knowledge and learn instead of rattling off by rote like Rain Man.

a01Lucknowite

level 42

Jul 20, 2018

Really hard and good quiz

btlover90

level 25

Aug 1, 2018

I finally did it! It's taken me about three days to get 160 and finally, I got there. This quiz was more about how much you can type in 1:30 instead of the language itself. Other then that, it was hard.

Panifex

level 32

Aug 11, 2018

Damnit, Asia and Europe! Why does each country have to have its own language?

akela

level 35

Aug 27, 2018

Spanish is the official language in México, I believe that English is in US and Australia. What are your sources?

kito

level 29

Sep 8, 2018

ethiopia and azerbajan got me ;-; maldives and bhutan were a real set back but idk what azerbajan and ethiopia are

49er727

level 39

Sep 17, 2018

I put in Amharic each time and it would not accept it. Says incorrect answer. This happens to be one of the few I know.

mostlycheating

level 65

Sep 26, 2018

Amharic is not working please fix this

level ∞

Sep 26, 2018

Fixed

JC3

level 49

Oct 12, 2018

Azerbaijani isnt working. Please fix as this is one of the only ones im not getting

level ∞

Oct 12, 2018

Fixed, thanks.

sombat92

level 23

Nov 2, 2018

100% with 1 second left! That was hard!

JC3

level 49

Nov 26, 2018

Very tough quiz, took forever to get 100!

lvtharrison

level 58

Nov 26, 2018

Am I the only one who misses the days of Yugoslavia?

GeographyGeek42

level 53

Feb 2, 2019

Yes.

leannevz

level 46

Jan 16, 2019

Typing in Afrikaans doesn't work, South Africa and Namibia should have showed up.

level ∞

Jan 16, 2019

Afrikaans will work for South Africa now.

Eigengrau

level 55

Feb 2, 2019

Why are Urdu and Hindi listed as Hindustani? Urdu is written in Arabic script and Hindi in Devanagri script. This is a direct insult to Pakistan and Urdu, because the whole point of freedom was to be separated from Hindus and Hindustan. Plz elaborate if i'm wrong. Thanks.

GeographyGeek42

level 53

Feb 2, 2019

Bahasa for Indonesian?

GeographyGeek42

level 53

Feb 2, 2019

I just realised that Bahasa means language in Indonesian. Never mind.

level 57

Feb 3, 2019

I thought French were an official language of Andorra?

em2133

level 42

Feb 3, 2019

no, catalan is the official language

level 57

Feb 4, 2019

Ok.

Lucas88

level 38

Feb 5, 2019

Argentina doesn't have an official language. The Spanish is the facto language but not the official.

joez

level 69

Feb 6, 2019

Finally earned the Language Badge. Yay!

level 57

Feb 19, 2019

Can the description be changed from 'will be filled it' to 'will be filled in'?