The prime minister offered to quit, having failed to broker a deal between the country's main linguistic groups.
The aboriginal peoples that were Quebec's first inhabitants are usually classified into three main linguistic groups: the Algonquian, the Inuit (Eskimo-Aleut), and the Iroquoian.
Supervisory boards are getting smaller: companies feel less obligation to include representatives of the country's three main linguistic groups (German, French and Italian), both main strains of Christianity and both sexes.At the same time, management and supervisory boards now contain more foreigners.
"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.
Finally, we did not find significant population structure in the maternal lineages when considering the four main and distinct linguistic groups represented in our Mexican samples (Oto-Manguean, Uto-Aztecan, Tarascan, and Mayan), suggesting that genetic divergence predates linguistic diversification in Mexico.
As the colonial power, they had drawn a line round the lands of the three main peoples and 400 or so smaller linguistic groups, governed the mainly-Muslim northerners indirectly through traditional rulers and the mainly-Christian remainder directly, called them in aggregate a nation and, in 1960, given them independence.
The groups belong to one of four main linguistic families: Lao-Tai; Mon-Khemer; Hmong-lu Mien; and Chine-Tibet.
The groups belong to one of four main linguistic families Lao-Tai, Mon-Khemer, Hmong-lu Mien, Chine-Tibet.
They can be divided into three linguistic groups: (1) the Beti to the north, the main tribes being the Yaunde, or Éwondo, and Bene; (2) the Bulu, including the Bulu proper, Fong, Zaman, and Yelinda; and (3) the Fang in the south, including the Fang proper, Ntumu, and Mvae.
There are also other minor linguistic groups.
In New York, the main linguistic spice is Spanish.
