The people of Afghanistan form a complex mosaic of ethnic and linguistic groups.
China is a multinational country, with a population composed of a large number of ethnic and linguistic groups.
Louisiana, unique in the South for the close social contacts among its diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, elected many black officials in the post-Civil War period.
The riots and the political crisis that ensued left Moldovan society, already fractured among competing ethnic and linguistic groups, even more polarized.
In return for giving up control of the country's foreign affairs to Britain, he received arms and money to conquer various ethnic and linguistic groups: other Pashtuns, Tajik, Farsiwan, Uzbek, Turkmen, Baluch, Hazara, Aimaq and others.
"The die is cast in Canada: there are two main ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture to engulf the other.
They were in the minority, but they presided over a disparate collection of what were, in effect, principalities: desperately poor regions populated by some eighty ethnic and linguistic groups, all consisting mostly of peasants, living amid their goats and cattle in conical mud-and-thatch huts.
Small concentrations of ethnic and linguistic groups have always been found in surprising places Lebanese in west Africa, Japanese in Brazil and Welsh in Patagonia, for instance but they have been joined by newer ones, such as west Africans in southern China.These networks of kinship and language make it easier to do business across borders (see article).
Group representation occurs when the society is divided into non-geographically defined groups such as ethnic or linguistic groups or even functional groups such as workers, farmers and capitalists and returns representatives to a legislature from each of them.
Comprised of several ethnic and linguistic groups, including the Lacandon, who continue to live and work in the forest of the same name, the majority of Chiapas' indigenous people live in the north of the state near the border with Guatemala.
Chad is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups.
