Q2: GOA Prelims 2024 Screening Test: Previous Year Question with Answer

Read the following Passage and answer the questions below: With the disappearance of a language, it is not only a human creation that dies, but also a form of expressing a relationship with nature, an oral tradition, poetry and ultimately a culture, thereby contributing to global impoverishment of humanity. It is for these reasons that states, regions, society and civil as well as cultural organizations are seeking to adopt measures conducive to the preservation of languages. These languages constitute a priceless heritage, playing a central role in the preservation of the identity of numerous communities threatened on some continents, as well as being indispensable factors in ensuring cultural diversity. A number of warnings by linguists and other social scientists as well as international organizations have come to underline with growing intensity the crucial factor of languages and mother tongues in the development of human creativity, of the capacity to communicate, and above all, its primary role in evolving cultural identities. From the options provided below, select the one that is closest in meaning to the phrase “with growing intensity the crucial factor” as implied in the passage.