How have forces such as colonialism affected the survival of indigenous languages?
What will be an ideal response?
Colonialism brought in European languages and established all official business and education (usually) in the colonial language. As young people grew up in the society, they saw their own language increasingly diminished and used infrequently for any kind of public act.
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Today, in the United States, there are skyrocketing rates of all of the following conditions due to lifestyle practices except:?
a. heart disease
b. diabetes
c. obesity
d. albinism
The three positions that nations occupy in the world system are
A. wealth, power, and prestige. B. core, periphery, and semi periphery. C. state, nation-state, and nation. D. metropole, satellite, and semi-satellite. E. bourgeoisie, middle class, and proletariat.
In rural Greece, some brides receive a wealth transfer from their mothers as a kind of trust fund for her marriage
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The Movius line separates __________
a. Oldowan from Acheulean tools b. Chatelperronian from Acheulean tools c. hand-axe bearing areas from those without hand axes d. Chatelperronian from Oldowan tools