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Every two weeks a language disappears. By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone. Migration, either between coun
Every two weeks a language disappears. By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone. Migration, either between coun
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2018-03-01
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Every two weeks a language disappears. By 2100 nearly half of the 6,000 spoken today may be gone. Migration, either between countries or from the countryside to cities, is one reason; though new arrivals generally stick with their mother tongue, at least at home, their children rarely do. The dominance of English is another. But one tongue against the trend is Romani, spoken by 4m of the roughly 11m Roma people worldwide. Its health attests to the importance of language in shaping identity.
Unlike most languages, Romani has no country to call home. Its roots lie in India, but since the 10th century its speakers have scattered and kept moving. One result is that they are everywhere a linguistic minority. Another is that 150 different dialects are in use. "Anglo-Romani", spoken in Britain, differs widely from dialects in France, Bulgaria and Latvia. One Roma man in New Zealand speaks a dialect previously only heard in Wales.
The 290,000 native Swedish speakers in Finland show no signs of dropping their language—but it is their country’s second official one, compulsory in all schools and spoken by 9. 5m Swedes next door. Irish hangs on partly because of government spending on translating road signs and documents, broadcasting, teaching and extra marks for brave students who use the tongue in their final school exams.
But without a government to champion it, Romani is used mostly in the home. Academics and linguists have written it down and tried to standardise it, but many of those who speak it do not read it. America printed a Romani guide to its 2000 census form, but that is a rarity; it almost never features in official documents.
The lack of texts complicates attempts to teach it formally. Roma Kulturklass, a Swedish Romani-language school, is one of a handful in the world. Its 35 pupils study everything except Swedish and English in both Romani and Swedish. But with few textbooks, says Angelina Dimiter Taikon, the head teacher, staff must make do with their own translations.
Romani is hard to teach because ______.
选项
A、few people have mastered it
B、few people are willing to learn it
C、the written language is insufficient
D、the language is extremely complicated
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的“Romani”,“hard to teach”等信息定位到第五段首句:The lack of texts complicates attempts to teach it formally.而该题答案也是出自这个句子。其中,“complicates(使复杂)”对应“hard”。而使Romani不容易教的原因是“the lack 0f texts(缺少教科书)”,而该信息对应选项C,the written language is insufficient。其中,“written language(书面语言)”对应“texts(教科书)”;“insufficient(不足的)”对应“lack(缺乏)”。故选项C为本题答案。
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考研英语一
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