Leia o excerto a seguir. “There are nine languages in Eritrea. Tigrinya (50%) and Arabic are the working languages. The other languages are Tigre (...

Leia o excerto a seguir. “There are nine languages in Eritrea. Tigrinya (50%) and Arabic are the working languages. The other languages are Tigre (40%), Afar (4%), Saho (3%), Bega (Beja), Bilen, Nara and Kunama. English and Italian are also widely understood. There is no official language, though Tigrinya, Arabic and English predominate in commerce and national business. The use and development of all nine of Eritrea's languages are encouraged at the local level, and children attend primary school through the fifth grade in their mother tongue. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Italian peasants settled in Eritrea. Some 70.000 remained in Eritrea at the end of the Italian colonial rule in 1941. Many, mainly older Eritreans therefore speak Italian. Under the British administration, there were in effect two official languages, Tigrinya and Arabic. During the years of the Ethiopian occupation, Amharic, the language of the ruling Ethiopian regime, was made the official language, and Eritrean languages were banned. But most Eritreans refused to speak Amharic. Instead, they continued to teach their native languages to their children. English is now the language of instruction in secondary schools and in the University of Asmara and is fast becoming the foreign language of choice. The policy of the Eritrean government is for all elementary education to be carried out in the language of the area”. LANGUAGES in Eritrea. Portal Eritrea.be, [ S. l.], [ S. d.]. Disponível em: http://www.eritrea.be/old/eritrea-languages.htm. Acesso em: 5 fev. 2021. A Eritreia é um país africano recente situado nas proximidades da Etiópia. São faladas cerca de nove línguas no território eritreu, entretanto, três línguas são predominantes: árabe, tigrínia e inglês. A língua inglesa é predominante na educação superior e no comércio, o que faz dela uma língua estrangeira crescente no país. Tendo em vista essas considerações e as informações presentes no texto, marque a alternativa correta. a. Pode-se