NDA 2025
- Exam
- NDA
- Year
- 2025
- Subject
- General Ability
- Chapter
- English
NDA 2025 · General Ability · English
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that...
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct option from the given options, based solely on the passage. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages 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 make 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 peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all.
Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages of the world?
An attempt to determine the number of languages in the world is affected by other factors. A few new languages 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 make 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 peoples are bilingual or multilingual, and converse with outsiders in lingua franca, it may take a while before linguists come to realize that there is an ethnic language there at all.
Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages of the world?
Options
- ANew languages continue to be discovered
- BThere are still unexplored regions
- CNew languages are considered a dialect of a known language
- DPeople who speak the language do not claim their language
Correct answer
D. People who speak the language do not claim their language
Step-by-step solution
The passage states that new languages continue to be discovered, unexplored regions still exist, and new languages are often initially considered dialects of known languages. These are all reasons for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages. However, the passage does not mention that people who speak the language do not claim their language. It only mentions that they may converse with outsiders in a lingua franca because they are bilingual or multilingual.
Therefore, the statement that people do not claim their language is not a reason mentioned in the passage.
Answer : People who speak the language do not claim their language
Therefore, the statement that people do not claim their language is not a reason mentioned in the passage.
Answer : People who speak the language do not claim their language