Sentence examples for linguistic grounds from inspiring English sources

Though India's big-state boundaries were determined on linguistic grounds, other claims for statehood, such as those based on economic and cultural coherence, have since been recognised.

On linguistic grounds Sardinian (not the language of an independent nation since the 14th century) and Occitan (the medieval Provençal) are usually regarded as languages rather than dialects.

On linguistic grounds, some scholars were at first disposed to bring them from lands west of the Black Sea, but it subsequently was shown that this theory conflicts with much archaeological evidence.

On linguistic grounds he has been variously identified as the biblical Ezra, the Christian Apostle Andrew, Alexander the Great's cook Andreas, and sometimes as the biblical Elijah or Muslim al-Khiḍr.

On comparative Austroasiatic linguistic grounds, Ferlus (2010) suggests that rice was eaten first as a gruel of crushed and roughly husked grain.

In the Austronesian case, this could imply, on linguistic grounds, a familiarity with both wet and dry rice as well as with transplantation techniques (Sagart 2003).

Not only that, but at 6,000 years' distance, the linguistic ground is far from firm.

And Shepard is working new linguistic ground here, with a sparse text that's no less surreal than "A Lie of the Mind" but has more space and silence between its lines.

Either way, once you concede the linguistic ground -- by saying the words -- everything else eventually follows.

In wisely choosing a linguistic middle ground against the largely imported Dano-Norwegian written language and the oral Norwegian dialects, Asbjørnsen and Moe came to set the standard for the Norwegian language known as Nynorsk ("new Norwegian") in contradistinction to the more formal Bokmål ("book Norwegian"), though they also influenced the latter to some degree.

The various experts, at the behest of their delegations' leaders, were seeking to draw boundaries in areas that had never before been separated by international frontiers and drawing them on linguistic and ethnic grounds rather than on the grounds of any naturally occurring geographic criteria.