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Isn't the Latin alphabet now used in Sudan, for English at least? Kwamikagami 19:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Changing it. 76.95.46.102 23:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the only official language is Somalia (if there is such thing as official in Somalia) is Somali, and the only official script Latin. Kwamikagami (talk) 10:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Watch Tajikistan, though. It has announced that it plans to switch to the Arabic script,[1] though it looks like it will take a few years at least. Kwamikagami (talk) 10:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Husa in Mali and Nighr, Husa is written in Latin and Arabic. an official in Somal and studied as a 2nd language in Burkina Faso's schools. Ahmad2099 (talk) 22:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

But I don't believe it's official in Burkina nor in Mali. Also, Arabic is not an official language of Somalia, AFAIK it's a "secondary" language. I'm afraid we need some verification that it's used officially in these countries. You can find Arabic script in govt. buildings in nearly every country in the world, but if we color the entire map green, it becomes meaningless. Kwamikagami (talk) 09:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay, per the 2004 constitution of Somalia, Arabic is now coofficial. Kwamikagami (talk) 10:25, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Malaysia is missing (Jawi); please add! Thank you... --ProloSozz (talk) 21:37, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

2018

The map was a mess, and the last edit was an exaggeration. Here's my summary from my update. Please provide sources if you believe something is wrong.

Arabic no longer official in Israel proper. I don't know if any language is official in the Palestinian territories, but if so, Hebrew is as well, at least in the West Bank, so I made the West Bank light green, left Gaza dark green, and made Israel proper grey.

Arabic is not official in Hong Kong or Taiwan. In China, it's regionally official in Xinjiang, but only Chinese is official at the national level. (E.g., Han Chinese Muslims write in Chinese script. Not sure about regional vs national in India, that looks more complicated.) Not official in Somaliland.

Only French is official in Mali and Niger. I checked South Sudan "Constitution Part 1, ... No. 6 (2)", per the edit claiming SSudan should be light green, and it clearly states that English is the official language. No mention of Arabic.

For Iraq, the regional govt [2] states that "The Sorani Kurdish dialect uses Arabic script while the Kurmanji Kurdish dialect is written in Latin script." Both Arabic and Kurdish are official at the national level.

Only Arabic is official per Damascus. But both Kurmanji (in Latin script) and Syriac are official in the northern federation.

It is true that only Arabic is official in Mauritania, so leaving that dark green. But Spanish is official in Sahrawi Republic, so no need to stripe Western Sahara w dark green.

Kwamikagami (talk) 18:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC)