Country Languages Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Kokborok belongs to the Tibeto-Burman family.

Kokborok, the language of the Tripuri people, is a Bodo-Garo language, part of the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. It is close to Bodo and Dimasa, spoken in Assam.

Bengali, the other main language of Tripura, is Indo-European, which is the trap. Dravidian languages are spoken in south India, and since one option is correct, 'None of these' is wrong.

Answer: C

The language that is not official in Meghalaya is Lepcha.

Under the Meghalaya State Language Act, 2005, English is the official language of the state and Khasi and Garo are associate official languages. Lepcha is not a language of Meghalaya at all: it is spoken by the Lepcha people of Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills, and is one of Sikkim's official languages.

Jaintia (Pnar) is not named in the Act either, but it is a Meghalaya language of the Khasi group, spoken in the Jaintia Hills, which is how the paper treats it. Lepcha is the option with no connection to the state.

Answer: A

The answer is Kerala.

The four major Dravidian languages are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, spoken mainly in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala. Kerala is the home of Malayalam.

Assam's main language, Assamese, Punjab's Punjabi and Uttar Pradesh's Hindi all belong to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family, not the Dravidian family.

Answer: C

It is Honduras.

Spanish is the official language. Garifuna, Miskito and other indigenous languages are spoken along the Caribbean coast.

Answer: C

It is Kosovo.

Albanian and Serbian are both official languages, with Turkish, Bosnian and Romani given official status at municipal level where their speakers are concentrated.

Answer: B

It is Serbia.

Serbian is official in Serbia and is unusual in being written in both Cyrillic and Latin, with full digraphia - every speaker reads both, and the two scripts map onto each other letter for letter.

Answer: C

It is Turkey.

Turkish is the official language of Turkey and, with Greek, of Cyprus. The alphabet was changed from Arabic to Latin in 1928 as part of Ataturk's reforms.

Answer: D

It is the Czech Republic.

Czech is a West Slavic language, very close to Slovak, written in the Latin alphabet with the hacek and the acute accent - diacritics introduced by Jan Hus in the fifteenth century.

Answer: A

It is Hindi.

Article 343 makes Hindi in Devanagari the official language of the Union, with English continuing as an additional official language. The Eighth Schedule recognises 22 languages, and the states have official languages of their own.

Answer: A

It is Uzbek.

Uzbek is a Turkic language and the state language of Uzbekistan, written in a Latin alphabet since independence though Cyrillic remains in common use. Russian is widely spoken in the cities.