Иностранный язык: базовый курс
Exercise 7 A). Choose the best alternative
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A). Choose the best alternative What is a dead language? A dead language is a language that no longer has any ______ 1 _____ speakers, although it may still be studied by a few or used in certain contexts. If there are only a few remaining elderly _________ 2 _______of a language and it is no longer used for___________ 3 _______, then that language is effectively considered dead even before its last native speaker has passed away. The death of a language is rarely a sudden event, but usually takes place gradually as a language is marginalized or slowly ________ 4 ______ by other languages. Some of the most well known dead languages include Latin, Sanskrit, Old English, Aramaic, Ancient Greek, Old Norse, Coptic, Iberian, Etruscan and Proto-Indo-European, just to name a few. Dead languages are often confused with _______ 5 _____ languages, or languages that are no longer in current use and don't have any active speakers. While some scholars have tried to draw a line between the two, in reality, dead languages and extinct languages have undergone more or less the same phenomenon: they have lost native speakers and are no longer commonly used. Due to increasing globalization, thousands of languages are becoming extinct or are at current risk of __________ жүктеу/скачать 1,21 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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