Some traditional Earth cultures were too fond of their linguistic distinctions to surrender them completely.

I make a difference between linguistic distinctions and real ones.

This group sometimes also is referred to as the 'Southern Sotho' in connection with linguistic distinctions.

Despite their ethnic diversity and linguistic distinctions, the various Quechua ethnic groups have numerous cultural characteristics in common.

Although these linguistic distinctions may seem like political correctness to some, they are, said Ms. Diamond and many others, distinctions that matter, that clarify reality.

The Baluch in Oman have maintained their ethnic and linguistic distinctions.

Such linguistic distinctions facilitated forced assimilation of colonized ethnic identities into a single Imperial Japanese identity.

A linguistic distinction remains to this day in the Russian language where there are two distinct terms that correspond to the word Jew in English.

Ethnological research suggest that "Gagauz" was a linguistic distinction and not ethnic.

He was making a linguistic distinction, swatting at the common use of "Vatican" as a synonym for the Roman Catholic Church.