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Today's challenge for A Thinker's Daily Challenge

Match the country with its official or national language!

A. Anguilla B. Yemen C. Sao Tome and Principe D. Guadeloupe E. Liechtenstein

1. Portuguese 2. French 3. Arabic (Arabiyya) 4. German 5. English

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Comment by 4-LAN on February 22, 2014 at 10:53am: Ken,

I love this kind of stuff! Without looking up a reference and cheating, I am going to guess on some of these smaller, more obscure countries and their languages: I think Yemen-being a Middle Eastern country might be Arabic.

Sao Tome and Principe, though I am not familiar with this nation (but would guess that it is an island or group of islands), sounds by the very name to be Portuguese-the 'Sao' was the give away :-)

I have heard of the tiny European nation of Liechtenstein and from its location in Western Europe and the 'stein' portion of the name, I would guess that German is spoken there. However, English is the lingua franca throughout most of Europe now, so I would deduce that Liechtenstein probably has duo official languages of English and German.

Now, we are getting to the tougher parts :-)

Both Anguilla and Guadalupe sound very Spanish to me. However, Spanish is not on your list of choices. I would then defer to either Portuguese or French-as they are also Romance languages, sharing the same Latin origins as Spanish and Italian.

So, Ken-how did I do?