Sentence examples for major linguistic groups from inspiring English sources

The four major geographic regions largely correspond to the areas inhabited by the major linguistic groups.

In addition to Spanish there are more than 180 indigenous languages and dialects belonging to such major linguistic groups as Arawakan, Chibchan, Cariban, Tupi-Guaraní, and Yurumanguí.

The Indian subcontinent is presently inhabited by four major linguistic groups, viz.

It has all the world's major linguistic groups and the populations have been shaped by different waves of migrations and admixture (1,  2).

Thus, Mexico has eleven linguistic families divided into 68 major linguistic groups which include 291 living languages and seven extinct ones (Inali 2007).

These populations were identified from 4 major linguistic groups namely, Austro-Asiatic (AA), Tibeto-Burman (TB), Indo-European (IE) and Dravidian DR) spanning 6 geographical regions of habitat (N, north; NE, north-east; W, west; E, east; S, south; C, central) and different ethnic groups (LP, large population, caste; IP, isolated population, tribes; SP, special population, religious groups).

It is thought that three of the major Asian linguistic groups originate in the general area of the Yangtze River, the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien and Tai [4].

Apart from its many religions and sects, India is home to innumerable castes and tribes, as well as to more than a dozen major and hundreds of minor linguistic groups from several language families unrelated to one another.

There are also other minor linguistic groups.

Southeast Asia is an area of close contact between several major ethno-linguistic groups: the Daic (Tai-Kadai), the Austro-Asiatic (including the Mon Khmer), the Sino-Tibetan (including Tibeto-Burmans and Han), the Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao), the Austronesian and the Altaic.

Specific nationality groups were created to allow the analysis of major migrant a and linguistic groups b.