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Marty

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The government of India had to abort several attempts to establish Hindi as the official language because:
 
  a. there were too many dialects to narrow into one form of Hindi.
  b. riots broke out in non-Hindi speaking areas of the country.
  c. linguists could not keep track of all the languages.
  d. colonization made English a much better choice for a national language.
  e. teaching bilingual skills was an expensive, difficult undertaking.

Question 2

A lingua franca refers to
 
  a. the French language.
  b. a common language.
  c. a world-wide language understood by most people in the world.
  d. a language with no form of nonverbal communication.
  e. an artificial language that is spoken by no one (a kind of techno-speak).



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B



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