Sentence examples for linguistic affinity from inspiring English sources

India's military could use the services of many India-trained Afghan security personnel buoyed by people-to-people contacts and linguistic affinity within Afghanistan.

The considerable mobility and often close linguistic affinity of the peoples in the area led to substantial interchange of musical terms and instruments and to common social functions of music relating to the traditional tribal social structure of most of the groups of this region.

Social networks and cultural and linguistic affinity with the community also help the migration process (Amuedo-Dorantes and Mundra 2007; Aguilera and Massey 2003; Munshi 2003; Zhou and Logan 1989).

In the interviews with this subset of the Latvian participants, it was found that they do associate more with other Russian speakers due to linguistic affinity, but they also distinguish themselves from 'Russian Russians', emphasising the interviewees' Latvian/Baltic identity.

The Czechs and the Slovaks traditionally shared many cultural and linguistic affinities, but they nonetheless developed distinct national identities.

Linguistic affinities between the early Sinhalese- and Prakrit-speaking peoples of eastern India strengthen the hypothesis of a migration from this area.

Mongolia's occupation of Korea left linguistic affinities, shared genes and wild horse herds, known to this day as Mongolians, on the South Korean island of Cheju, the staging base for the frustrated invasion of Japan.

We are musing about the surprising linguistic affinities between Treknobabble and Shakespearean iambic pentameter – both of which Stewart is fluent in, having spent sizeable chunks of his five decades in acting immersed in them.

An early Aryan civilization dominated by peoples with linguistic affinities to peoples in Iran and Europe came to occupy northwestern and then north-central India over the period from roughly 2000 to 1500 bce and subsequently spread southwestward and eastward at the expense of other indigenous groups.

As Taiwan's largest trade partner and primary security threat, not to mention the many cultural and linguistic affinities between the two countries, China is inexorably a concern for ordinary Taiwanese.

Studied tribes were then grouped according to geographic proximity (model 2), linguistic affinities (model 3) and to the results suggested, namely two groups separating Indo-European speakers of west and central India from all others (model 4).