We can infer all of the following about indigenous languages from the passage EXCEPT that:

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Question :

We can infer all of the following about indigenous languages from the passage EXCEPT that:

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A.
their vocabulary and grammatical constructs have been challenging to document.
B.
they are repositories of traditional knowledge about the environment and culture.
C.
people are increasingly working on documenting these languages.
D.

they are in danger of being wiped out as most can only be transmitted orally.

Option A is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

In the first paragraph, the passage states that indigenous languages ‘function as vehicles for the transmission of cultural traditions, environmental understandings and knowledge about medicinal plants’, that ‘ speech communities are increasingly involved in projects to protect their languages – in print, on air and online’ and that ‘most of the world's languages are still transmitted orally with no widely established written form’.

So, options B, C and D can be inferred from the passage.

Though the passage states that indigenous languages have ‘unusual words and intriguing grammar’, it does not say that this makes these languages challenging to document. Option A cannot be inferred from the passage.