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To: Dale Baker who wrote (719)	4/29/2003 8:53:37 AM
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Survey Finds That Less Than Half of All Americans Know What the Official Language of Iraq Is Thursday January 30, 12:05 pm ET NEW YORK, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- We've fought one war with Iraq and are inundated with media stories about a second. One would think Americans know some pretty basic facts about the country. But surprisingly, in a recent survey only 49 percent of respondents could name Arabic as an official language of Iraq. ADVERTISEMENT In the survey of over 2500 people conducted for Living Language by the NFO WorldGroup, people were asked to choose Iraq's official language from the list of Arabic, Farsi, Iroquois, Armenian and Turkish. From this list only Arabic is an official language of Iraq. Kurdish is also recognized as an official language, although not offered as a choice in this survey. Although 49 percent did choose Arabic, 18.3 percent chose Farsi, 2.2 percent chose Armenian, and 1.3 percent chose Turkish. A very small percentage (0.6%) chose Iroquois, a Native American language. They would have been better off joining the 28.5 percent who simply answered "don't know."