Sentence examples for of populations speaking from inspiring English sources

It seems likely, however, that a movement of immigrants into Southern Africa occurred in two streams and was part of a wider expansion of populations speaking Bantu languages that ultimately derived from the Niger-Congo languages of western Africa some 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.

This interpretation was questioned by Forster and Romano who, referring to the geographic correlates, questioned this evidence and proposed that, alternatively, the spread of these haplogroups could be potentially be explained by more recent events, perhaps contemporary to the dispersal of populations speaking Afro-Asiatic (AA) languages [ 32].

To test these two scenarios, we carried out a detailed analysis of R7 mtDNAs in populations speaking different subgroups of AA languages, as well as among IE and Dravidian-speaking populations of Indian subcontinent.

In northern Nigeria, northern Uganda, and Kenya there are substantial populations speaking other languages, but even in these countries the majority of the population speaks a Niger-Congo language.

The Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family is the largest language group in the subcontinent, with nearly three-fourths of the population speaking a language of that family as a mother tongue.

Six additional possible predictor variables were also identified, including percentage of the population who are Indigenous and percentage of the population speaking little or no English.

The country forms a European cultural and linguistic crossroads, with about two-thirds of the population speaking German, around one-fifth French and about 7% Italian.

Column (5) instruments the business environment with distance from the equator, the percentage of the population speaking the main European languages, and the predicted trade share constructed from a gravity model, see Hall and Jones (1999).

As an initial cut off, we included parishes with greater than 5% of the population speaking French at home (range is 5 27%).

Afrikaans is arguably the most predominant language spoken in the western parts of South Africa, with 55.3% of the Western Cape population speaking Afrikaans as a first language.

All these populations speak dialects of the Mongol language.