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CTET 8 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 78

Topic: Maps and directions

Q78

Choose the correctly matched pair(s).

Language Where it is spoken (State)
(a) Malayalam (i) Goa
(b) Konkani (ii) Kerala
(c) Marathi (iii) Jharkhand
(d) Gujarati (iv) Karnataka
(e) Kannada (v) Maharashtra
(f) Kuduk (vi) Gujarat
  1. (1) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(v), (d)-(vi), (e)-(iv), (f)-(iii)Correct answer
  2. (2) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv), (e)-(vi), (f)-(v)
  3. (3) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(v), (d)-(iv), (e)-(vi), (f)-(iii)
  4. (4) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv), (e)-(v), (f)-(vi)

Solution.

CBSE answer: (1)

Answer: (1) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(v), (d)-(vi), (e)-(iv), (f)-(iii)

  1. Malayalam is spoken in Kerala and Konkani in Goa.
  2. Marathi belongs to Maharashtra, Gujarati to Gujarat and Kannada to Karnataka.
  3. Kuduk (Kurukh) is a tribal language spoken in Jharkhand.

Trap: (4) simply pairs the lists in order; that puts Malayalam in Goa, which is wrong.