What risk was also hidden in promoting French and reducing the importance of regional dialects?
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Correct answer: Local linguistic identities could become weaker
A common language can improve administration, education and communication across a nation, but language policy can also marginalise local speech communities. If French was promoted while regional dialects were treated as inferior, people could lose recognition of their local linguistic identity and cultural traditions. National communication would not necessarily stop, and the policy did not cause foreign rule; therefore A is correct.
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Local linguistic identities could become weaker
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A common language can improve administration, education and communication across a nation, but language policy can also marginalise local speech communities. If French was promoted while regional dialects were treated as inferior, people could lose recognition of their local linguistic identity and cultural traditions. National communication would not necessarily stop, and the policy did not cause foreign rule; therefore A is correct.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 10 Social Science question. Chapter: The Age of Industrialisation. Topic: The French Revolution and the Idea of the Nation.
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