True or False?

In a certain remote village, all the inhabitants belong to two category. i.e. they always speak either true statements or false statements, but not both. Three persons of that village are passing by when they met a foreigner, who asked the firstperson what group does he really belong. The first one told in his native language which the foreigner could not understand. Hence the foreigner asked the second person, who knows a little bit English, whatdid the first person tell. The second person told that he(firstperson) said he belonged to 'true group'. Immediately the thirdperson said that he(first person) said he belonged to' false group'. Now the question is which group does the second person belong?


Answer:

The second person should belong to 'True group'. Because no matter if one belongs to 'true' or 'false' group, he will invariably tell he belongs to true group, if he is asked which group does he belong? That is what is repeated by the second person. The fact that whether the first person belongs to true or false group, he will only tell he belongs to true group, was repeated exactly by the second person. Therefore the second person speaks truth and hence belong to truegroup. Now it is very evident that the third person is clearly a liar but we don't know about the first person's group, still.