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"Tomato" is one example of an English word that has an Indigenous origin. The word came to English indirectly from tomate, the Spanish word for the widely cultivated plant. Spanish had borrowed it from Nahuatl, an Indigenous language of Central Mexico, in which the word's original form is tomatl. "Llama" also has an Indigenous origin and entered English through Spanish. But in this case, the original source was Quechua, a language of South America, in which the word for the woolly farm animal is also llane.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

• A.

  The English words "tomato" and "llama" can both be traced to Indigenous languages.

• B.

  Spanish adopted many words from Nahuatl but few words from Quechua.

• C.

  The word "Tomato" is more common in English than the word "llama" is.

• D.

  When non-Indigenous languages borrowed from indigenous languages, the words often underwent a significant change in meaning.