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Let the Feb. 2024 #fridaygeotrivia game begin
On Feb 21st the world celebrated "International Mother Language Day", in honor of which our question this month is: Name countries that have only one official language, and that language has no official status (national or regional) in any other country.
An example is Iceland 
with Icelandic
• 1 answer per toot
• must include #fridaygeotrivia hashtag and the emoji flag of the country
Full rules on the blog:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-february-2024
More about International Mother Language Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day
First points go to @AtanasE for Bulgaria 
#fridaygeotrivia
Lithuania 
with Lithuanian scored by @individual8 #fridaygeotrivia
Nice work @matt_travis
Cambodia, Khmer 
#FridayGeoTrivia
Point! to @njwatt for Vietnamese/Vietnam 
#fridaygeotrivia
Early #fridaygeotrivia lead for @matt_travis as he bags Myanmar (Burma) Burmese 
Welcome to #fridaygeotrivia @zverik who scores 
Estonia
Very well done @cyclotopie to get on the #fridaygeotrivia board with Bhutan 
He keeps the momentum going with 
Maldives
#fridaygeotrivia 
A new entrant to the score board - @brunogirin discovers Latvian in Latvia 
#fridaygeotrivia Well done!
With the discovery of Georgia 
@cyclotopie moves into the #fridaygeotrivia lead!
15 more minutes to play! #fridaygeotrivia
Last call for answers before we declare a winner ! #fridaygeotrivia
That's it!!! #fridaygeotrivia for February 2024 is done. Thanks everyone for playing.
The emoji trophy 
goes to ... @cyclotopie
Answers are up on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-february-2024
@opencage #fridaygeotrivia Vietnamese/Vietnam
@opencage Japan 
with Japanese #fridaygeotrivia
@individual8 No sorry, also an official language of Palau 
@Spring No. Japanese also has official status in Palau
Also - you need emoji flag
@opencage Hungary 
with Hungarian #fridaygeotrivia
@opencage Wow, difficult one this week. 
@matt_travis ? Italian is an official language of Switzerland 
@opencage Lithuania with Lithuanian #fridaygeotrivia
@opencage Mongolia 
with Mongolian #fridaygeotrivia
@individual8 Mongolian is official in regions of China 
@opencage Albania 
with Albanian #fridaygeotrivia
@individual8 That attitude will not get you far in Kosovo 
North Macedonia 
and Montenegro 
@opencage As a person from Estonia I should mention it :) #fridaygeotrivia
(wouldn't the list be like 150 countries long?..)
@zverik no not really, the list is shorter than you might think
@opencage Burundi 
with Kirundi #fridaygeotrivia
@opencage Rwanda 
with Kinyarwanda #fridaygeotrivia
@individual8 Rwanda has four official languages
@DF9DQ No, Sami is also an official language in Norway 
@opencage I really love how much I can learn here every month! 
@DF9DQ you can find all the past questions here:
https://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/fridaygeotrivia
@opencage Tonga 
with Tongan #fridaygeotrivia
@individual8 English is also an official language, sorry
@opencage Latvian in Latvia? #FridayGeotrivia