A GOP `` task force ' committee will seek to find out how its party may win support from the ethnic and minority groups in cities.

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

In the early 1920s the Yugoslav government of Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic used police pressure over voters and ethnic minorities, confiscation of opposition pamphlets and other measures of election rigging to keep the opposition, and mainly the Croatian Peasant Party and its allies in minority in Yugoslav parliament.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

A German ethnic minority have settled in the mountains between Vicenza, Verona and Trento in Italy ( also known as Seven Communities ) is also called the Cimbri (: it: Cimbri ( minoranza linguistica )).

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

A quarter of the people in England's prisons are from an ethnic minority.

* Dong people ( 侗族 ), an ethnic minority group in China

A nation-state for the ethnic group derives political legitimacy from its status as homeland of that ethnic group, from its protective function against colonization, persecution or racism, and from its claim to facilitate the shared cultural and social life, which may not have been possible under the ethnic group's previous status as an ethnic minority.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

After the emergence of the Taliban, Iran stepped up assistance to the Northern Alliance minority ethnic groups.

Greeks are also a recognized ethnic minority in Hungary.

However, the issue of ethnic Hungarian minority rights in Slovakia and Romania periodically causes bilateral tensions to flare up.

The main minority ethnic groups of the former Commonwealth, including Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Jews, were getting involved in their own national movements and plans, which met with disapproval on the part of those ethnically Polish independence activists, who counted on an eventual rebirth of the Commonwealth.

* 1956 – Start of Gal Oya riots, the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in the Eastern Province.

Cushitic peoples form a small ethnic minority of about 2 %, mostly represented by Oromo and Somali speakers.

* Arabs form a small but historically important minority ethnic group in Kenya.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

Thus, ethnic minority populations are found on both the Laotian and Vietnamese sides of the frontier.

Fezzan has remained a kind of North African outback, its oases peopled largely by minority ethnic groups.

The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

Most speakers of dialects and minority languages speak Central Thai as well, since it is the language used in schools and universities all across the kingdom.

Thai script (, àksǒn thai ), is used to write the Thai language and other, minority, languages in Thailand.

* Thai script, the writing system of Thai and various minority languages in Thailand

The Khmer-speaking minority and Kuy ( Suai ), who live in the south of Isan, speak dialects and follow customs more similar to those of Cambodia than either the Thai people or the Lao people.

The majority of the population are generally ethnic Thai, but 12. 5 % of the population belong to the hill tribes, a minority in the North of Thailand.

The Ta ' ang ( ; Thai: ปะหล ่ อง, also written as Benglong ) are a Mon – Khmer ethnic minority found in Shan State of Burma, Yunnan province of China and northern Thailand.

The Miao (; ; Thai: แม ้ ว ( Maew ) or ม ้ ง ( Mong ); ) is an ethnic group recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) as one of the 55 official minority groups.

Glebe Point Road is the main road through the suburb, featuring a shopping strip, known for its specialty shops and cafés and for its variety of ethnic restaurants, possibly the most diverse in Sydney-Indian, Thai, Italian, Nepalese, Dutch-Indonesian, and other minority ethnic tastes.

Increasing school attendance, for example, when coupled with the proscription of minority languages in schools, had the effect of discouraging the use of those languages in favour of Thai.

Islam, while a minority faith in Thailand, is quickly growing, with recent statistics suggesting a population of anywhere from around 3. 9 to 7 million Most Thai Muslims belong to the Sunni sect, although Thailand has a very diverse and developing population which includes immigrants from around the world.

Similarly, there is an ethnic Thai minority in Northern Malaysia.

In addition, over half of ethnic Thais ( the rest are southern Thai who are mostly of Hainan, Gujarati and Malay descent ) are descendants of people who migrated from southern China approximately 1, 000 years ago and are directly associated racially, culturally, and linguistically with China's modern day ethnic minority group, the Dai people.

The SAS Group previously has owned the Rezidor Hotel Group and Braathens and has had minority ownership of bmi, airBaltic, Thai Airways International and Lan Airlines.

As a result, since the establishment of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya under King Mongkut, Thai sangharajas have tended to come from that order, despite it being a minority of the ordained monks in Thailand.

Like all Lao cities, Kaysone Phomvihane has a mixed population of Lao, Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese, as well as minority peoples from the Lao interior.

In Microsoft terminology, a Language Interface Pack ( LIP ) is a localized skin for localizing software in emerging or minority language markets, such as Lithuanian, Serbian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Thai.

Australian judge Sir Percy Spender wrote a scathing dissent for the minority on the court, however, pointing out that the French government had never mentioned Thai " acquiesance " or acceptance at any time, not even when Thailand stationed military observers at the temple in 1949.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

* A language descended from the pre-Roman inhabitants, though Welsh exists as a living minority language, with many borrowings from Latin, such as llaeth (" milk "), ffenestr (" window ").

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The extreme north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the most North-Western part of Russia, is home to the region's original inhabitants, the today's minority of Sami, who originally inhabited a much larger area, before the expansion of the Scandinavians northward.

The biggest minority nationality is Russian, comprising 2 % of the inhabitants.

kaupunki ) and the year after Finnish became the majority language of the inhabitants and Swedish the minority.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

The inhabitants of Cyrene at the time of Sulla ( c. 85 BC ) were divided into four classes: citizens, farmers, resident aliens, and a minority population of Jews.

A significant minority of inhabitants of the department ( fewer than 100, 000 ) speak a Germanic dialect known as platt lorrain or Lothringer Platt ( see Lorraine Franconian ).

Ethnic Turks were the " master-nation " of the empire, holding political and military power, but were a minority of the empire's population even of its Muslim inhabitants, as they were outnumbered by their Arab subjects.

Since 1995, Rusyn has been recognized as a minority language in Slovakia, enjoying the status of an official language in municipalities where more than 20 percent of the inhabitants speak Rusyn.

However, in 1963, special ' language facilities ' were given to French-speaking inhabitants, when those were still a minority.

If the minority has increased into at least 3, 000 persons or 8 % of inhabitants, then the municipality must become bilingual.

If the minority has fallen below 3, 000 persons and 6 % of inhabitants, then the municipality must become monolingual, unless it decides to keep its bilingual status.

Voeren is economically dependent on the provinces of Liège and, increasingly, Dutch Limburg and the majority of its inhabitants are Dutch speaking, a significant minority even being Dutch citizens.

The majority of the approximately 7, 000 inhabitants of Kirkenes are of a Norwegian background, and a minority is Sami.

Nevertheless, a minority of Israelis believe the price Israel paid for the peace agreement was too high for its present gains, i. e. having relinquished the entire Sinai Peninsula, with its oil, tourism and land resources ( Israel has no other oil wells ), and the trauma of evacuating thousands of its Israeli inhabitants ( many resisted, as in the town of Yamit and had to be forcefully evacuated, a phenomenon encountered also in the subsequent Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, known as the disengagement ).

According to the 2001 census from population of 338 224 inhabitants the Bulgarians were 302 858 ( 89. 5 %), followed by 22 501 from the Turkish minority ( 6. 7 %), 5 192 from the Roma minority ( 1. 5 %) and 7 673 others and unspecified ( 2. 3 %); most of these 6, 7 % Turks are Roma from the ghetto quarters who self-identify as Turks on the census.

The majority of Trakai's inhabitants ( 61 %) are Lithuanian, although the town also has a substantial Polish minority ( 21 %), as well as Russians.

The area contains 41, 000 native English-speaking inhabitants, a minority in the community.

The inhabitants of northern Mesopotamia were made up of Sunni Muslim Kurds and Turks, although there was a significant Yazidi minority in that region as well.

Many inhabitants of Piacenza and the surrounding province still use the Piacentine ( or Piacentino ) dialect, which is quite different from standard ( Florentine ) Italian as it is a variety of the Emiliano-Romagnolo minority language.

Arabs formed the population base ( religious, industrial, and commercial functions ) and the general population included the original inhabitants of the city, immigrants from different parts of Syria, North Africans who accompanied Qalawun's army during the liberation of Tripoli, eastern Christians, some Western families, and a minority of Jews.

The Greek inhabitants of Eastern Rumelia were concentrated on the coast, where they were strong in numbers, and certain cities in the interior such as Plovdiv, where they formed a substantial minority.