linguistic island
NOUN
speech community
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Hungarians trace their identity to the Magyars, warrior horsemen who entered the region from the steppes to the east in the ninth century, forming a cultural and linguistic island surrounded by Slavs and Germans.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 22, 2015
