linguistic community
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These spheres contain a multitude of smaller circles in a spectrum of vivid colors, each representing a linguistic community and engraved with the name of that language in its own script.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2022
Harnarayan Singh didn’t have a hard time selling fellow Punjabi Canadians on ice hockey – especially not when the country’s third-largest linguistic community boasts its own rich field hockey tradition.
From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019
Through comparative, historical, and computational analyses of the data, he hopes the linguistic community will now use the site to solve long-standing questions about how New Guinean populations expanded and spread their culture.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 30, 2015
Photograph: Miro Kuzmanovic/REUTERS The etymology of the word "jacksie" has recently become a source of dispute among 's amateur linguistic community.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012
Languages can change at so many points of phonetics, morphology, and vocabulary that it is not surprising that once the linguistic community is broken it should slip off in different directions.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
