Match the following neighbouring countries with their official languages correctly.

Correct — D. The figure is a two-column table: the countries numbered 1 to 4 are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Pakistan and Myanmar; the languages lettered a to d are Dzongkha, Burmese, Dari and Urdu.

Afghanistan takes Dari, official alongside Pashto, so 1-c.
Bhutan takes Dzongkha, so 2-a.
Pakistan takes Urdu, its national language, so 3-d.
Myanmar takes Burmese, so 4-b.

That reads 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b — option (d).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-d — This keeps 1-c and 2-a but swaps the last two, handing Pakistan Burmese and Myanmar Urdu. Burmese belongs to Myanmar, so the tail of the sequence fails.
• (b)
  1-a, 2-c, 3-d, 4-b — This swaps the first two, giving Afghanistan Dzongkha and Bhutan Dari. Dzongkha is Bhutan's language, so the pairing is inverted at the top of the table.
• (c)
  1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b — This gives Bhutan Urdu and Pakistan Dzongkha. Only 1-c and 4-b survive; the middle two are exchanged.

SSC asks the neighbour-to-language pairing rather than any linguistics, so the four names are what matter.

Dzongkha is Bhutan's national language and is written in the Tibetan script. Dari is the Afghan variety of Persian and is official alongside Pashto. Urdu is Pakistan's national language, with English also used in official work. Burmese is Myanmar's official language.

Fix Dzongkha to Bhutan and Burmese to Myanmar first; the remaining two then fall out on their own.

Key facts

• Dzongkha is the national language of Bhutan and is written in the Tibetan script.
• Dari and Pashto are the official languages of Afghanistan.
• Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, with English also used in official work.
• Burmese is the official language of Myanmar.

Common traps

• Pairing Afghanistan with Pashto, finding no Pashto option, and then guessing.
• Exchanging Dzongkha and Dari because both names are unfamiliar.

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