Sentence examples for minority of speakers from inspiring English sources

Of the minority of speakers who actually addressed the environmental impact statement itself, some complained that they had been given only a few weeks to digest a foot-high stack of statistics and diagrams.

Conversely, although the minority of speakers with aphasia used the word "swing", the majority gestured the arc-like trajectory.

The current study found that the minority of speakers with aphasia used the word "roll" and, an even smaller group gestured manner information.

As Bellos points out, those born as English speakers are now a minority of English speakers: most speak it as a ­second language.

Bench is the main variety of Gimira, and the Ometo cluster is represented by languages such as Woylatta, Gamo, Gofa, Basketto, Male, and Chara, plus several minority groups of speakers in the southern Rift Valley.

This means that the tiny minority of French speakers can vote for French-speaking parties, whereas Dutch speakers in Wallonian Brabant can't vote for Dutch-speaking Flemish parties.

Russian and Estonian also are spoken by a very small percentage of Finns, and there is a tiny minority of Sami speakers in the extreme north of Finland.

The results haven't always been successful; there have been misguided attempts to enforce Latvian-language education, despite the strong minority of Russian speakers, and flirtations with stringent citizenship restrictions.

Ethnic Latvians (the majority) voted for the ethnic Latvian parties (mostly neoliberal), while the sizeable 30% minority of Russian speakers voted with similar discipline for their party, Harmony Centre (loosely Keynesian).

The country also contains an official minority of German speakers in the east.

In the late nineteenth century, the Swedish influence remained strong, with a minority of Swedish-speakers forming the élite.