Far bigger than Uruguay, and without Brazil's linguistic isolation, Argentina played the lead role in this process - perhaps more successfully in Colombia than anywhere else.

Schaller compares and contrasts Ildefonso's case with those of other individuals with impaired language or linguistic isolation.

However, Ethnic studies is accused of promoting "racial separatism", "linguistic isolation" and "racial preference".

I was happy to hear English after two weeks of linguistic isolation on my trip down the Amazon last June, and even more delighted to be in Belem.

Social and linguistic isolation: While the population was mixed, only Poles were required to be bilingual.

However, Hawaiian Studies has been accused of promoting "racial separatism", "linguistic isolation" and "racial preference".

But a new report released yesterday suggests that this linguistic isolation helps protect them from the higher rates of obesity, asthma, and adolescent risk-taking that afflict native-born and Americanized children.

In this respect we would point out the linguistic and cultural isolation in which certain national policies have put some ethnic groups in Europe, resulting in significant discrimination.

But with slightly more than half of America's Muslim population foreign-born, Muslims suffer from a vulnerability compounded by linguistic, cultural and political isolation.

How many people live in "linguistic isolation" (bureaucratese for "non-English speakers")?