Lost For Words Past Paper PDF

Lost for words A. evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain, the key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue , as well as the dominant language. C. questions 1\. half the world's 6800 language 2\. it is not necessarily these small...

Lost for words A. evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain, the key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue , as well as the dominant language. C. questions 1\. half the world's 6800 language 2\. it is not necessarily these small languages is about to disappear because the world is peppered with languages spoken by only a few people 3\. it's not just the number of speakers, but how old they are. The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly. 4\. it begins with a crisis of confidence. " People lose faith in their culture, when the next generation reaches their teens, they might not want to be induced into the old traditions". 5\. by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools 6\. yes. Language is bound up with the culture, so it might be difficult to preserve one without the other. 7\. no, it is not the same. " Preserving a language is more like preserving fruits in a jar". 8\. there are a lot of examples of languages that have survived in written form and then been revived by later generations and the written form is substantial for this, so the mere possibility of revival has led many speakers of endangered languages to develop systems of writing. B. the study of languages, unrecorded languages, dominant language, indigenous languages, native language, endangered languages