Sentence examples for major language groups from inspiring English sources

Dr. Cavalli-Sforza believes these Y chromosome lineages may be associated with the major language groups of the world.

But Dr. Wallace, asked if his mitochondrial DNA lineages also corresponded to the world's major language groups, said he "tended to be more cautious than Luca".

If it is possible to create some bilingual speakers in one of the major language groups, then their chances of survival could be greatly enhanced.

Scott, a wildly popular MP for Lusaka, notes that the country has more than 80 tribes and several major language groups.

There were 12 major language groups among the peoples living in what is now Canada: Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan, Athabascan, Kootenaian, Salishan, Wakashan, Tsimshian, Haidan, Tlinglit, Inuktitut, and Beothukan.

Linguists trying to reconstruct the language spoken by the ancestral human population have found that the world's major language groups bear strong echoes of the mother tongue's words for "one" and maybe "two," but nothing more.

Therefore, the starting point must be a comparison of the modern Sinitic languages, with the view of recovering for each major language group the original common form, such as Proto-Mandarin for the Northern languages and Proto-Wu and others for the languages south of the Yangtze River.

Held on the idyllic island of Barbados, this unique cultural event will showcase works by the finest visual artists in and of the Caribbean, representing all of the region's major language groups--Dutch, English, French, and Spanish.

However, when we studied each major language group separately, the magnitude and pattern of the relationship between IRSAD decile and UMAT performance was almost identical.

However, we expect little bias due to genetic admixture, because the prevalence of several polymorphisms studied in the cohort did not vary across the three major Swiss language groups.

All major language and religious groups have their own cultural practices (which also vary by geographic location); however, there are commonalities that form strong and recognizable national traits.