Question:
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow, based solely on the passage.
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A new language do continue to be discovered even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which makes the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such people are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsides in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realise that the there is an ethnic language there at all.
Question:
“The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be“, means
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow, based solely on the passage.
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A new language do continue to be discovered even these days, as unexplored regions of the world begin to be opened up. The discovery does not usually take place straight away. Often there are similarities with an already known language which makes the investigators assume that what they have found is just a dialect of that language. Only after a considerable period of contact does it transpire that the speech is so different that it has to be considered a different language. It takes a language survey to establish the facts, and there are still many countries where such surveys are incomplete or have not even begun. The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be. Because many such people are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsides in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realise that the there is an ethnic language there at all.
Question:
“The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be“, means
Options:
- a) People are recognised as different ethnic group but not necessarily their language.
- b) People are recognised as different ethnic group and their language is recognised.
- c) People are not recognised as different ethnic group, and so are their languages.
- d) Because the people are not from different ethnic groups and their language is recognised.
- a) People are recognised as different ethnic group but not necessarily their language.
- b) People are recognised as different ethnic group and their language is recognised.
- c) People are not recognised as different ethnic group, and so are their languages.
- d) Because the people are not from different ethnic groups and their language is recognised.
correct answer : a)
Explanation:
The line “The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be” suggests that while ethnic groups are known, their specific languages aren’t necessarily recognised.
The line “The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be” suggests that while ethnic groups are known, their specific languages aren’t necessarily recognised.