The majority of Southeast Alaska's area is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States ' largest national forest.

The islands are home to a majority of Alaska's Aleut population.

The struggle for independence was a war within the upper class, although the majority of troops on both sides consisted of conscripted mestizos and native Americans.

Czech (; čeština ) is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers ; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.

The majority of the kingdom's inhabitants were native Christians, especially Greek and Syrian Orthodox, as well as Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims.

The majority rejected the traditional feudal development of the doctrine of tenure as inappropriate for Australia, and rather saw that upon acquisition of sovereignty the Crown acquired not an absolute but a radical title, and that title would be subject to native title rights where those rights had not been validly extinguished.

According to A Brief History of the Caribbean ( Jan Rogozinski, Penguin Putnam, Inc September 2000 ), European and African diseases, malnutrition and slavery eventually destroyed the vast majority of the Caribbean's native population.

Judd's parents divorced in 1972, and in 1973, her mother took her back to her native Kentucky, where Judd spent the majority of her childhood.

As several authors have pointed out ( Mamdani 1996 ; Gentili 1999 ; O ' Laughlin 2000 ), the Indigenato regime was the political system that subordinated the immense majority of Mozambicans to local authorities entrusted with governing, in collaboration with the lowest echelon of the colonial administration, the " native " communities described as tribes and assumed to have a common ancestry, language, and culture.

The native settlements consisted of pagi ( cantons ) containing a number of vici ( villages ), the majority of the large towns being of Roman origin.

According to David Stannard's American Holocaust, 50 % of African deaths occurred in Africa as a result of wars between native kingdoms, which produced the majority of slaves.

Wilson refused to grant independence to the white minority government headed by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith which showed little inclination to extend political influence to the native African population, let alone to grant majority rule.

The majority of the Tatar population are Volga Tatars, native to the Volga region.

The native language of the city is the Tehrani accent of Persian and the majority of people in Tehran identify themselves as Persian.

The Evenki or Ewenki are sometime conjectured to be connected to the Shiwei people who inhabited the Greater Khingan Range in the 5-9th centuries, although the native land of the majority of Evenki people is in the vast regions of Siberia between Lake Baikal and the Amur River.

Later, in the 20th century, the conceptualization of Taiwanese is more controversial than most variations of Chinese because at one time it marked a clear division between the Mainlanders who arrived in 1949 and the pre-existing majority native Taiwanese.

" This species is the only one of that genus to have a range extending into the Americas, with the majority of Hirundo species being native to Africa.

This is in part due to the 1949-generation Mainlanders have gradually passed on the scene, and politicians supporting and opposing the Taiwanese independence movement both realize a majority of Taiwan's current residents, either because they are born in Taiwan to Mainlander parents with no collective memories of the ancestral homes, or they are native Taiwanese thus feeling no historical connotations with the entire pre-1949 Republic of China on mainland China, support the movement as such.

Some species are native to rocky and coastal areas, but the majority are grassland plants.

Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American NTSC television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted ( dating long before digital conversion methods ) NTSC state.

In a majority of member states, French is not the predominant native language.

The native populations in Paraguay speak the traditional Tupi-Guaraní while the majority of bilingual Paraguayans speak Guaraní-Jopara (" Jopara " meaning mixed ).

Until the 1960s, the majority of the Chinese population in Chinatown emigrated from Guangdong province and Hong Kong, thus they were native speakers of Cantonese, especially the Canton and Taishan dialects.

After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces " Westward ," a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land.

He wrote some of his work in English, but the great majority is in his native Welsh.

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By 1960, the vast majority of country-states were nominally democracies, although most of the world's populations lived in nations that experienced sham elections, and other forms of subterfuge ( particularly in Communist nations and the former colonies.

It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties ( thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages ), which significantly differ from the majority or official language ( thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as mere local dialects of the official or majority language ) and that either have a territorial basis ( and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State ) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole ( thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romani, which are used over a wide geographic area ).

It is the religious denomination of the majority of the populations of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus.

The majority of the vocabulary of ancient Greek was inherited, but it does include a number of borrowings from the languages of the populations that inhabited Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greeks.

Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries ' populations.

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It eventually included citizens of 23 nations with majority Muslim populations, as well as Eritrea, which has a large Muslim population, and North Korea.

Although the majority of wildebeest populations migrate, some populations do not, and appear to never have done so in recorded history.

Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10, 000 to 20, 000 sikhs dead in New Delhi and surrounding areas with majority populations of Hindus.

The vast majority of Banksia are found in sandy or gravelly soils, though some populations of B. marginata ( Silver Banksia ) and B. spinulosa do occur on heavier, more clay-like, soils.

Mozambique's rural black populations were largely illiterate, as were a majority of Portugal's peasantry.

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But even in these species, one would distinguish cases where isolated populations had no real choice of mates, or where the vast majority of individuals died before sexual maturity, leaving only the ecologically selected survivor to mate-regardless of its sexual fitness under normal sexual selection processes for that species.

Other populations often intermixed with the existent population to a more limited degree or have sought to preserve a separate community from the majority Malagasy.

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The Vietnamese, Lao and Khmer ethnic groups formed the majority of their respective colony's populations.

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