Genes change slowly, over many generations, while the diversity of phonemes amid a population group can change rapidly as language evolves.
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The Reverend Lydia Hernandez is with Manos De Cristo, a volunteer group that, among other things, teaches English as a second language in Austin Texas.
Jamal Uddin, a reporter for the Bengali-language newspaper Gramer Kagoi was stabbed and hacked to death by a group of men in a market in Sharsha on 15 June.
It's doing the same in Colorado, where a law's vague language enabled a harassing complaint to be filed with the secretary of state against a group opposing two referendums that would raise taxes and increase government spending.
However, Simon Brooks from Welsh-language pressure group Cymuned said the situation was a disgrace.
Dr. Pagel's explanation is that, since language serves the interests of the group, when a new tribe splits off from the rest of a society, the people in the new tribe deliberately differentiate themselves the better to unite.
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The recommendations - made by the government's Modern Languages Working Group - also suggest that children should learn a third language no later than P5.
The overwhelming majority of the readers go for language, despite being what I believe to be a generally pro-science group.
For now, many consumers' best option is to seek out an experienced and reputable insurance agent to cut through all the confusing language, says Amy Bach, who runs United Policyholders, a consumer-advocacy group in San Francisco.
Meanwhile earlier this month a new pressure group was set up to defend Welsh-speaking communities from erosion of the language.
"Discrimination of any kind against a country, private person or group of people on account of ethnic origin, gender, language, religion, politics or any other reason is strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion, " it reads.
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She also urged the government to establish a task and finish group to plan to increase the number of communities where Welsh is the main language.
The language of Japan's coastal whaling proposal hints that it will table a vote on it if the Buenos Aires Group presses for a vote on the South Atlantic sanctuary.
They were close, but a group of anti-abortion Democrats were holding out, hoping to get a vote on the stricter abortion language written last year by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI).
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