Question : Which is the second largest family in modern Indian languages?
Option 1: Sino-Tibetan (Kirata)
Option 2: Indo-European (Aryan)
Option 3: Austric (Nishada)
Option 4: Dravidian (Dravida)
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Correct Answer: Dravidian (Dravida)
Solution : The correct answer is Dravidian (Dravida).
The two major language families are Indo-Aryan (spoken by 78.05% of Indians) and Dravidian (spoken by 19.64%). Together, they are referred to as Indic languages. The Dravidian family, encompassing languages like Tamil and Telugu, is the second largest, boasting around 200 million speakers.
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Question : Sanskrit is a part of a family of languages known as
Option 1: Indo-European
Option 2: Indo-Asian
Option 3: Indo-Tibetan
Option 4: Indo-Dravidian
Question : As per Schedule 8 of the Indian Constitution, how many official languages are there in India?
Option 1: 22
Option 2: 12
Option 3: 42
Option 4: 32
Question : As per the 2011 Census, arrange the following languages in descending order of Speakers strength: Marathi, Hindi, Maithili.
Option 1: Marathi, Hindi, Maithili
Option 2: Marathi, Maithili, Hindi
Option 3: Hindi, Maithili, Marathi
Option 4: Hindi, Marathi, Maithili
Question : Comprehension: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
When he died on 27 November 1953, Gladstone O'Neill was (1)______recognised as one of the major dramatists of the modern world. Four times a Pulitzer Prize-winner, he had also been (2)______the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. His plays have been translated into most major languages and read by more people than those of (3)_____other playwright except W Shakespeare and maybe G Bernard Shaw. O'Neill was a puzzle to his friends - a genuinely shy, brooding, complicated man in whom (4)_____alternated with touching kindness. He was both, naive and worldly. One biographer found him "sentimental one instant, hard as nails the next." His widow, after 26 years with O'Neill, said, "To (5)_____his work you must understand the man, for the work and the man are one."
Question: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.
Option 1: failure
Option 2: success
Option 3: benefit
Option 4: cruelty
Question: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.
Option 1: none
Option 2: few
Option 3: any
Option 4: some
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