We may be geographic neighbors, but when it comes to linguistic traits, we're poles apart.

Often, ethnicity also connotes shared cultural, linguistic, behavioural or religious traits.

This could be done by focusing on the interactive aspect of language, because interaction in speech is the path along which diffused linguistic traits travel.

However, as he points out, such early literature does not yet present any uniform stylistic or linguistic traits.

Another linguistic trait thought to increase a text's prestige was the use of hapax legomena, words appearing only once in the text.

Despite a common history with Asturias, the region has many unique cultural and linguistic traits.

One, a bank teller, intones every sentence as a question - a linguistic trait of some Southerners.

Moreover, other linguistic traits show the same results: the 9th century.

This reflects the Dravidian linguistic trait of causativity combined with time aspect.

He too based the theory partly on linguistic traits, and also stated that the two groups had different approaches to liberty versus hierarchy.