Linguist (a) A person who can read, write and teach persian.(ii) Orientalists (b) A local language.(iii) Munshi (c) A place of learning.(iv) Vernacular (d) An order brought from England to India by Wood.(v) Wood’s Despatch (e) A person who knows and studies several languages.(vi) Pathshalas(f) People who have scholarly knowledge of the language and cultureof Asia.State whether true or false:1. Mahatma Gandhi was the promotor of English language.2. William Jones had a respect for ancient cultures.3. Thomas Macaulay thought that European education was necessary in India.4. William Carey had an appointment as a Supreme Court Judge.

Match the following:Column A Column B(i) Linguist (a) A person who can read, write and teach persian.(ii) Orientalists (b) A local language.(iii) Munshi (c) A place of learning.(iv) Vernacular (d) An order brought from England to India by Wood.(v) Wood’s Despatch (e) A person who knows and studies several languages.(vi) Pathshalas(f) People who have scholarly knowledge of the language and cultureof Asia

A personwho is skilled in foreignlanguages- A. IllegibleB. InterpreterC/LinguistD. Teacher

A person who knows and studies several languages.

Select the incorrect match -A Vernacular – Local Language B Rabindranath Tagore – Shantiniketan C Linguist – Expert in one language D Madrasa – An Arabic word for a place of learnin

In 1783, William Jones arrived in Calcutta who was a linguist.→ He had studied Greek and Latin at Oxford, knew French and English, Arabic and Persian.→ At Calcutta, he started learning Sanskrit language, grammar and poetry.→ Soon he was studying ancient Indian texts on law, philosophy, religion, politics, morality, arithmetic, medicine and the other sciences.