PT107.S2.P2.Q13

PrepTest 107 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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Tribal communities in North America believe that their traditional languages are valuable resources that must be maintained. ███

Intro to Topic · Maintenance of traditional tribal languages
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Problem · Language dying
Blame is on majority culture which separates a community and its traditions.
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Solution · Community self-teaching
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Solution Mechanics · Document the grammar
Example: Northern Utes created a sort of textbook on grammar.
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Obstacle 1 · Difficulty writing down oral languages
Oral languages don't have written symbolic counterparts. So, I guess the challenge is that they have to invent the written counterparts?
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Obstacle 2 · Many dialects
Which dialect should be written down and taught?
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Solution / Decision · Northern Utes rejected standardization
They accept various spellings as long as meaning was the same. This may sound problematic for us but it's fine for what their community needs.
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Results · Success
Children could write and speak the language.
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Opposition · Transforming an oral language to a written one is misguided and unnecessary
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Rebuttal · It is necessary because language is dying
Though, perhaps language could be preserved purely orally if majority culture was avoided more thoroughly.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
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Supported as one of their beliefs, because they decided not to standardize their language. So they must think it’s sometimes not necessary to standardize a traditional language.

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Anti-supported. The Utes decided not to standardize their written language. So it wouldn’t make sense for them to believe that written languages should reflect a standard dialect.

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Supported as one of their beliefs, because they decided not to standardize their language. So they must think traditional languages can be taught even if not rigorously standardized.

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Supported as one of their beliefs, because they agreed that “various phonetic spellings of words would be accepted as long as their meanings were clear.”

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Supported as one of their beliefs, because they decided not to standardize their languages, and this standardization “made sense in the context of the community’s needs.”

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