Name a language that is an official language of a European country

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Maltese Sign Language— Malta made its sign language official by law in 2016.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Abaza— Karachay-Cherkessia counts it among five state languages.
• Abkhaz— Georgia's constitution names it official in Abkhazia.
• Adyghe— Adygea, an enclave inside Krasnodar Krai, lists it as state language.
• Agul— One of the fourteen languages Dagestan's constitution lists.
• Albanian Sign Language
• Altai— Altai Republic's state language beside Russian since 1993.
• Aromanian— Kruševo in North Macedonia gave it official municipal use.
• Austrian Sign Language
• Avar— Largest of Dagestan's fourteen official languages.
• Azerbaijani
• Bashkir— Bashkortostan's own state language, beside Russian.
• Belarusian Sign Language
• Bosnian Sign Language
• British Sign Language
• Bulgarian Sign Language
• Bunjevac— Subotica added it to official use in 2021.
• Buryat— Mongolic language with official status in Buryatia.
• Catalan Sign Language
• Chechen— Chechnya's state language under its 2003 constitution.
• Chukchi
• Chuvash— Only living language of the Oghur Turkic branch, official in Chuvashia.
• Crimean Tatar— Named a state language in Crimea's 1998 constitution.
• Croatian Sign Language
• Cypriot Sign Language
• Czech Sign Language
• Danish Sign Language
• Dargin— Dagestan's second-largest language after Avar.
• Dolgan
• Dutch Sign Language
• Erzya— One of Mordovia's two official Mordvinic languages.
• Estonian Sign Language
• Even
• Evenki
• Faroese— Faroe Islanders' first language, official alongside Danish.
• Finland-Swedish Sign Language
• Finnish Sign Language
• Flemish Sign Language
• French Belgian Sign Language
• French Sign Language
• Frisian— Friesland's second official language after Dutch, by a 2014 act.
• Friulian— Friuli-Venezia Giulia recognises it by regional law.
• Gagauz— Official in Gagauzia, Moldova's autonomous Turkic region.
• German Sign Language
• Greek Sign Language
• Greenlandic— Official in Greenland, a constituent country of the Danish realm.
• Guernésiais— Guernsey's Norman language, still spoken by a few hundred.
• Hungarian Sign Language
• Icelandic Sign Language
• Ingush— Ingushetia, Russia's smallest republic, pairs it with Russian.
• Irish Sign Language
• Italian Sign Language
• Jèrriais— Jersey recognised its Norman tongue officially in 2019.
• Kabardian— Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia both give it state status.
• Kalmyk— Europe's only Buddhist republic made it official alongside Russian.
• Karachay-Balkar— One Turkic language official in two Caucasus republics.
• Kashubian— Poland's only regional language, auxiliary-official in Pomeranian gminas.
• Kazakh— State language of Kazakhstan, whose western edge lies in Europe.
• Khakas— Khakassia in southern Siberia gives it state status.
• Komi— Komi Republic's 1992 language law put it beside Russian.
• Kosovar Sign Language
• Kumyk— Once the North Caucasus lingua franca, now official in Dagestan.
• Ladin— Spoken in five Dolomite valleys, with official status in South Tyrol.
• Lak— Around 150,000 speakers, and a seat on Dagestan's official list.
• Latvian Sign Language
• Lezgian— Spoken across the Azerbaijan border, official in Dagestan.
• Lithuanian Sign Language
• Macedonian Sign Language
• Manx— Isle of Man Gaelic, revived after its last native speaker died in 1974.
• Mari— Two written standards, both official in Mari El.
• Meänkieli— Sweden's Torne Valley municipalities give it administrative status.
• Mirandese— Portugal's second officially recognised language, around Miranda do Douro.
• Moksha— Mordovia's other official language, distinct from Erzya.
• Nogai— Steppe Turkic, official in Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia.
• Norwegian Sign Language
• Occitan— Its Aranese form is official across all of Catalonia.
• Ossetian— Iranian language official in North Ossetia-Alania.
• Papiamento— Aruba and Curaçao, both in the Dutch kingdom, make it official.
• Polish Sign Language
• Portuguese Sign Language
• Romani— Official at municipal level in Kosovo under its language law.
• Romanian Sign Language
• Romansh
• Russian Sign Language
• Rusyn— One of six official languages of Serbia's Vojvodina province.
• Rutul— Written only since 1990, yet on Dagestan's official list.
• Sardinian— Regional law gives it equal dignity with Italian across Sardinia.
• Scots— Official in Scotland since the Scottish Languages Act 2025.
• Serbian Sign Language
• Slovak Sign Language
• Slovenian Sign Language
• Sorbian— Used before authorities across Lusatia under Saxon and Brandenburg law.
• Spanish Sign Language
• Swedish Sign Language
• Tabasaran— Famous for its dozens of noun cases, official in Dagestan.
• Tat— Persian-derived, and Dagestan's constitution counts it official.
• Tatar— Tatarstan has made it official beside Russian since 1992.
• Tsakhur— Straddles the Dagestan-Azerbaijan border, official on the Russian side.
• Turkish Sign Language
• Tuvan— Throat-singing republic in Siberia, its language official beside Russian.
• Udmurt— Official in Udmurtia, where Buranovskiye Babushki sang for Eurovision.
• Ukrainian Sign Language
• Yakut— Sakha, Russia's largest republic by area, made it a state language.
• Yukaghir

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Albanian
• Armenian
• Basque
• Belarusian
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Estonian
• Galician
• Georgian
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Latin— Official language of the Holy See, so the Vatican counts.
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Luxembourgish
• Macedonian
• Maltese
• Montenegrin
• Sami
• Scottish Gaelic
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Welsh

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

The most common answer on the board.

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish