The Finno-Ugric languages are represented today by some 20 languages scattered over an immense Eurasian territory.
Walsh says speakers of some of the languages are scattered around the world.
Tribes speaking related languages are scattered over a large part of the continent.
On a recent Thursday night, Mr. Lu, Chinese-language newspapers scattered at his feet, trimmed the visage of a rider while Jason Kraut, 39, filmed it on his smartphone.
In the 2014 documentary The Possibilities Are Endless, which shows his personality and language submerged and scattered, Collins recalls: "It's scary stuff, what's happening to me.
One language cluster, Fula (also called Fulani, Peul, Fulfulde, and Toucouleur), accounts for more than half of this number and is the most widely scattered language group in Africa, having substantial groups of speakers in almost all the savanna lands from Senegal to Sudan and large numbers in northern Nigeria and Cameroon.
They were, however, long ignored by Earth scientists intoxicated by evolutionary concepts, and challenged by cumbrous mathematics, language barriers, and scattered source materials.
The Ogilvy plan includes ideas for reaching an uninsured population that speaks dozens of languages and is scattered through 11 media markets: advertising on coffee cup sleeves at community colleges to reach adult students, for example, and at professional soccer matches to reach young Hispanic men.
To that number may be added the not-inconsiderable number of Romance creole speakers (a creole is a simplified or pidgin form of a language that has become the native language of a community) scattered around the world.
