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

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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 c