As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live in relative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they parted with their own language and…

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As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live in relative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they parted with their own language and adopted a new lingua franca. The loss of language, however, does not merely mean the loss of a mode of communication or the loss of a few thousand words. __________________________. So, when a language dies, a way of thinking dies with it.

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C - Languages exist not only for the purposes of practical communication; they convey a linguistic community's entire mindset and its culture. It connects 'not merely ... mode of communication' to 'So, when a language dies, a way of thinking dies with it' by saying languages carry a community's mindset and culture. The sentences about revival movements, endangered languages that seem to thrive, and languages…

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A - A certain school of thought regrets the demise of local languages but in recent times revival movements have emerged across the world, especially in India

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B - A potentially endangered language can sometimes appear to be thriving, or on the other hand, it can show signs of declining

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D - Since evolution and change in languages is a part of history, most of the languages spoken today would be scarcely recognizable from what they were a few thousand or maybe even a few hundred years ago

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