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Names of Countries in their Native Language

You have eight minutes to match countries to their endonym. The answers change every time!
Answers where the country is the same for the native language and English name are not included
There are no romanizations for two reasons: one, it would destroy the point of the quiz and two, there's about a million choices for some of these
If you're unhappy about Palestine and Taiwan being included, you're just going to have to deal with it.
Quiz by k455381
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Last updated: March 31, 2024
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Slovenija
Slovenia
Italia
Italy
Србија
Serbia
ኢትዮጵያ
Ethiopia
Sāmoa
Samoa
Κύπρος
Cyprus
Hrvatska
Croatia
Ayiti
Haiti
Guinée
Guinea
Беларусь
Belarus
Belau
Palau
تشاد
Chad
Україна
Ukraine
افغانستان
Afghanistan
تونس
Tunisia
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Schweiz
Switzerland
България
Bulgaria
Sénégal
Senegal
Hayastán
Armenia
Deutschland
Germany
الصومال
Somalia
កម្ពុជា
Cambodia
Sverige
Sweden
Aotearoa
New Zealand
Cabo Verde
Cape Verde
إرتريا
Eritrea
Madagasikara
Madagascar
북조선
North Korea
फ़िजी
Fiji
Türkiye
Turkey
11 Comments
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Level 57
Jun 10, 2024
Some notes:

1. I'm sorry if I missed any romanizations. There are a lot of countries and I know I might have missed a few in their native script. Please comment if you find one (it's hard to come across since the answers shuffle) and I will fix it.

2. Some of the native languages chosen are random. A lot of countries have many native languages, so I didn't use the de facto language for every single country, The quiz is about countries in their native language, not the de facto language.

3. I know the caveats give some of it away, but my other option was to pin a comment that also gave it away or deal with a lot of annoyed comments. There's no winning, I suppose.

4. Thank you so much for all the nominations, I just saw them!

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Level 70
Mar 31, 2024
What language is "India" in? It doesn't look like Hindi
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Level 57
Apr 1, 2024
india has a whole lot of native languages
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2024
I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm not saying I didn't encounter it and fail to see its significance, but I never saw - or at least perceived - Sesel written anywhere in that country.
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Level 57
Jun 10, 2024
I'm gonna be real, I do not understand what this comment is saying at all and I'm very sorry
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Level 57
Jun 9, 2024
I like the idea but don't love the implementation for two reasons

- One of the caveats gives away one of the answers

- When a country has multiple official or de facto languages or scripts, sometimes the not-most-common is used, which seems to be purposefully confusing. Not wrong, just misleading

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Level 57
Jun 10, 2024
1. I know the caveat gives it away, but if I posted it in the comments, that would give it away too and I don't want to deal with a million angry comments every day.

2. Some of the endonym languages were chosen at random to include more languages so that the countries are easier to guess

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Level 73
Jun 9, 2024
Why is Armenia romanized rather than written in Armenian script? I thought there were no romanizations?
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Level 57
Jun 10, 2024
sorry, I didn't realize that was romanized when I looked it up. I fixed it.
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Level 70
Jun 10, 2024
How do you decide for countries with more than one native language? Then in those cases it's not their endonym so much as one of their endonyms.

Ελλάς is also not the modern name of the country, which is instead Ελλάδα

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Level 57
Jun 10, 2024
I just choose one of the languages at random. This was mainly for countries with Arabic and Cyrillic endonym since there's so many very similar looking words sometimes.