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: A

It is Dari.

Dari, the Afghan variety of Persian, shares official status with Pashto. Dari serves as the language of government and the lingua franca between communities; Pashto is the mother tongue of the largest single group.

Answer: B

It is Albania.

Albanian forms a branch of Indo-European by itself, with no close living relative. It is also co-official in Kosovo and North Macedonia.

Answer: A

It is Arabic.

Modern Standard Arabic is the official language of Algeria, with Tamazight recognised as a second official language since 2016. French remains widely used in business and higher education without official status.

Answer: C

It is Andorra.

Catalan is the sole official language of the principality - the only sovereign state where it holds that position, though it is co-official in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearics.

Answer: D

It is Portuguese.

Angola was a Portuguese possession until 1975, and Portuguese remains the language of government and schooling. Umbundu, Kimbundu and Kikongo are the principal national languages.

Answer: D

It is Antigua and Barbuda.

The islands were British from 1632 until independence in 1981, and English is the official language. Antiguan Creole is what most people speak day to day.

Answer: B

It is Spanish.

Argentine Spanish is marked by voseo - vos in place of tu - and by the sh sound given to ll and y in the Rio de la Plata region.