Consider the following statements.
I – Dialects emerge because they give identi ty to the groups which own them.
II – The study of language history shows that if two social groups come to be separated only by a mountain range or a wide river, they will soon begin to develop diff erent habits of speech.
III – When a country becomes independent, there is a natural reacti on to reinforce the linguisti c character imposed by its colonial past, avoiding the indigenous language, to provide a symbol for new nati onhood.
IV – The drive for identi ty was parti cularly dominant in the second half of the twenti eth century, when ...