PrepTest 107 - Section 2 - Passage 2 - Question 9

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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

Problem · Language dying

Blame is on majority culture which separates a community and its traditions.

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?

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.

Opposition · Transforming an oral language to a written one is misguided and unnecessary

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

Problem-analysis

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This best captures the meaning of “document the language’s grammar.” The author gives us what the Northern Utes did as an example of what this means. The Utes analyzed and classified linguistic structures.

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Although the Utes developed a hierarchy of grammatical information based on the complexity of usage, this wasn’t the first thing they did.

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We’re looking for something that means “document the language’s grammar.” Nothing else can be correct, because the passage didn’t identify anything else as the first step in preparing to formally teach a traditional language.

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