1. Constitution ofIndia recognizes

Hindi as India's Official language

Hindi as a national language

Both Hindi and English as India's national languages

English as India's Official language

2. is the most popular South Indian language:

Oriya

Marathi

Tamil

Telugu

3. Sinhalese is language:

Dravidian

Indo-Aryan

Munda

Tibeto-Buramn

4. Saurashtri belongs to the same language family as:

Kannada

Marathi

Both and

None of the above

5. The following Schedule of the Indian Constitution deals with languages:

II

III

VIII

XIII

6. The Indian Constitution recognizes as scheduled languages:

13

b)18

c)15

d)22

7. is not one of the Scheduled languages ofIndia.

Telugu

Sanskrit

Hindi

Prakrit

8. Which of these languages have been declared recently as classical languages by the Government of India:

Sanskrit and Prakrit

Telugu and Kannada

Both and

Tamil and Sanskrit

9. The following category of words deals with actions and events in a sentence:

Noun

Verb

Adverb

Adjective

10. The language Urdu is genetically related to

Arabic

Persian

Hindi

Telugu

11. The most translated work in the world is

The Gita

The Bible

The Qoran

Panchatantra

12. Human languages are the evolution of human beings.

as old as

not as old as

there before

Not there before

13. If the words 'derivation', 'concentration', and 'invitation' can be broken up as 'derive action', concentrate invite +action respectively, how is the word 'activation' broken up:

active action

activate ion

activate action

active ion

14. 'Brahmi' is the name of a

Language


Script

River

Book

15. The relation between the pair of words 'active, and 'activity' may be describe as relation.

adjective-noun

noun-adjective

verb-noun

noun-verb

16. Speakers of many North Indian languages may find Hindi easier to learn because their languages' share similar

Words and meanings

Words and sentence patterns

Sounds and words

Culture

17. English language has more than words.

10000

1000000

1000

500000

18. The language with the richest vocabulary is

English

Chinese

Sanskrit

Hindi

19. The most widely spoken language of the modem world

Chinese

Arabic

Spanish

English

20. The language of the Mohanjo-daro is written in

Hieroglyphs

Brahmi

Indus

Nagari

21. The pronunciation of words in any language is determined by the way we perceive them.

True

False

22. All the languages of the world can be traced to Sanskrit.

True

False

23. Programming Languages are not languages.

True

False

24. In future we may communicate with computers as we do with fellow humans.

True

False

25. The Bible was originally written in Old English.

True

False

26. Language and development

27. Scheduled languages ofIndia

28. Language as culture

29. Languages of the world

30. Language and script

31. Mother tongue education

32. Dead languages

33. Classical languages

34. john, pluck, when, did, the, apple

35. easy, please, is, John, to

36. movie, evening, called, an, in, Paris, saw, a

37. time, test, you, take, each, your, the, you, will, improve, knowledge.

38. green, colourless, ideas, furiously, sleep

39. The children in that class nine years old.

has

are

have

IS

40. afraid not hungry. I've eaten lunch.

yet

still

already

ever

41. Most people like basketball, but my opinion it's too chaotic.

a)of

b)in

c)to

d)on

42. If she about his financial situation, she would have helped him out.

knows

knew

had known

has known

43. If he comes, we go to lunch.

will

would

will be

would be

44. The politically correct will tell us it is racist.

45. All prices are correct at the time ofour last update.

46. We strive to detect and correct typo that were in the original book.

47. When we tried to correct the mistakes, it will be too late

48. Why did you say this to him English?


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54. The Language Barrier. Discuss.

55. Language is essential; language is what we use to communicate among others. Discuss.

56. The Importance of Mother Tongue and Language Use in Family and Society. Discuss.

57. Language is a system with a definite structure. Discuss.

58. Translate the following passage into any Indian language that you are comfortable with [15 marks] and Discuss briefly the problems you have encountered in the process of translation. [05 marks]
Many consider language as the foundational distinction between man and animal. Language is the driving force of thought and our ability to communicate with fellow human beings enables us to dream, to aspire, to excel; animals can do no such things.

Animals can also communicate but only man communicates through a mechanism that is arbitrary. Language is arbitrary, in that it is the mechanism of communication which the sounds and words do not resemble what they were meant to describe. This distinctive figurative characteristic of human language coupled with the commonly held belief that language separates man from beast are sufficient reasons for us to explore the origin of languages and how language represents reality to us and whether or not it transforms reality for us.
Language deflects, selects, and reflects reality to us through figurative language and proper language. Does either figurative or proper language more accurately represent reality? Did they both arise at the same time or does one have to precede the other? Figurative language arose first. Rousseau, in his Essay on the Origin of Languages, deals with the problem of figurative language and proper language. He claims "that the firs

59. Study the following data from appropriately: Swahili, an African language and fill III the gaps appropriately:

i. nimesoma "1 have read" ii. tumesoma

iii. umesoma "you have read" iv. mmesoma "you pI. have read"

v. nilisoma VI. amesoma "he has read"

V11. wamesoma "they have read" viii. ulisoma "you read (past)"

IX. tulisoma x. mnasoma x. ninasoma

Xl. unasoma "you are reading" X11. tunasoma "we are reading"

xiii. wanasoma xiv. mnasoma "you pI. are reading"

xv. anasoma "he is reading" xvi. mwasoma "you pI. read (present)"

xvii.- "he reads" xviii. nasoma

xix. twasoma "we read (present)" xx. wasoma

XXI. "you pI. read xxii. mlisoma "you read (past)" (present)"

xxiii. walisoma "they read (past)" xxiv. alisoma

Study the following data from Swahili, an African language and fill In the gaps
appropriately:

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