"Toraja" (from the coastal languages' to, meaning people; and riaja, uplands) was first used as a lowlander expression for highlanders.
During the era of European exploration in the 15th 18th centuries, Portuguese served as a diplomatic and trade language in coastal Africa and in Asian coastal areas from the Indian Ocean to Japan.
Two of those under investigation are ranking members of Emgann, meaning "combat" in the Breton language of coastal northwestern France, judicial officials said.
In thinly populated areas, such as the Western Desert, chains of closely related dialects were spread over a wide area; in the more densely populated coastal and subcoastal areas, language boundaries were generally sharp, but multilingualism was common.
At the same time, the distribution pattern of B4a1a haplogroups (and its subtypes) suggested that a matrilineal society (speakers of Malayo-Polynesian languages) reached coastal Papua New Guinea 3 500 YBP to 2 500 YBP during the Lapita period where they rapidly expanded [49].
What's more, Tubman did not speak Gullah, a language common among coastal slaves.
Ms. Sotomayor had grown up in the Bronx speaking Spanish; Mr. Thomas's relatives in Pin Point, Ga., mixed English with Gullah, a language of the coastal South.
We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise, and for this reason my glossaries began to fill up with "unnatural" language: terms from coastal sea defences (pillbox, bulwark, rock-armour), or soft estate, the Highways Agency term for those natural habitats that have developed along the verges of motorways and trunk roads.
Brackish water lakes of Kerala, called 'kayals' (in native 'Malayalam' language) or backwaters or coastal lagoons, and its associated flood plains form the coastal wetland system of Kerala.
Umalali West African slaves who survived a 17th-century shipwreck begat the Afro-Caribbean culture of the Garifuna, who have held onto their language and music in coastal Belize, Honduras and Guatemala.
