At the festival, the endangered Toda language of the Nilgiris was said to have roughly how many speakers?
- A.About 500
- B.About 2,000
- C.About 12,000
- D.About 50,000
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Explanation
The correct answer is about 2,000. Speaking in the opening session, K. Vasamalli of the Toda community of the Nilgiris said the language has only that many speakers left, and described her effort to record it through radio recordings, her published work and a dictionary of five thousand seven hundred words prepared with the International Phonetic Alphabet and a modified Tamil script. Options A, C and D are not supported: a far smaller or far larger figure would change the nature of the documentation task she described. The wider point made at the session was that many tribal languages have no script of their own and some dialects are on the verge of extinction, which is why the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs said oral traditions can be preserved through other Indian languages and announced work with the Sahitya Akademi.
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Practice Questions
Where was the second edition of the National Tribal Literary Festival inaugurated?
- A.Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
- B.India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- C.Ranchi, Jharkhand
- D.Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
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The Ministry of Tribal Affairs opened the two-day festival there on the theme of the journey from oral tradition to contemporary tribal literature, as part of the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas Pakhwada.
Read the full explanation →Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, during whose Pakhwada the festival is held, is observed on the birth anniversary of which leader?
- A.Bhagwan Birsa Munda
- B.Rani Gaidinliu
- C.Tilka Manjhi
- D.Komaram Bheem
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The Union Cabinet declared the fifteenth of November, his birth anniversary, as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas, so that tribal heritage is celebrated and the contribution of tribal heroes enters the national consciousness; the literary festival is held during the fortnight, or Pakhwada, built around that day.
Read the full explanation →How many meritorious students and alumni took part in the programme at Rashtrapati Bhavan?
- A.46
- B.106
- C.146
- D.246
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That many meritorious students and alumni of the Eklavya Model Residential Schools, drawn from across the country, joined the interaction, and the group included toppers of Class X and Class XII along with students who had won admission to the IITs, the NITs, National Law Universities, the fashion technology institute…
Read the full explanation →Janjatiya Gaurav Pakhwada is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of which leader?
- A.Tantia Bhil
- B.Bhagwan Birsa Munda
- C.Rani Gaidinliu
- D.Alluri Sitarama Raju
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The fortnight is observed every year around his birth anniversary, and this year marks the 151st such anniversary of the tribal icon from the Chhotanagpur region.
Read the full explanation →The interaction of the President with meritorious Eklavya Model Residential School students was organised by which body?
- A.National Education Society for Tribal Students
- B.National Council of Educational Research and Training
- C.Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation
- D.National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
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This society, which functions under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, runs the Eklavya Model Residential Schools and organised the programme at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre.
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