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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