LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly half the people in the world speak an Indo-European language. Germanic, Romance, and Latin are all branches of Indo-European. One line of evidence suggests the first speakers of Indo-European were the Kurgans. Indo-European divided into different branches because of the isolation of different cultural groups.
Detailed explanation-2: -More than half of the world’s languages have no written form. Half of the languages spoken in the world today are predicted to disappear during this century.
Detailed explanation-3: -It turns out that Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Old Irish, Gothic, Old Bulgarian, Old Prussian, and other languages share surprising attributes, meaning that most European languages and many of the languages of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India belong to the Indo-European family.